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European Union to Get Its Own Domain
AP ^ | 03/23/2005 | AP

Posted on 03/23/2005 3:32:31 PM PST by r5boston

E-mail and Web addresses ending in ".eu" should appear on the Internet within the next year or so, giving Europeans a unified presence online.

The Internet's key oversight body still needs to complete a contract with EURid, a nonprofit group selected by the European Commission, the 25-nation bloc's executive body, to run ".eu."

But in a telephone conference call this week, the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers gave ICANN's staff the go-ahead to do so.

Within weeks, ".eu" is expected to be formally entered into the 13 computers that form the master directories for the Domain Name System, EURid said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Technical
KEYWORDS: domain; eu; europeanunion; internet

1 posted on 03/23/2005 3:32:31 PM PST by r5boston
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To: r5boston

Pronounced "ewwww." Think I'll register www.stinkyfrenchman.eu


2 posted on 03/23/2005 3:35:39 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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To: peyton randolph

Durnit... you beat me to it!


3 posted on 03/23/2005 3:42:22 PM PST by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: r5boston

Okay. So now we have to use www.microsoft.eu, GM.eu., IBM.eu, Citibank.eu, McDonalds.eu, Disney.eu ...


4 posted on 03/23/2005 5:06:33 PM PST by nicollo (All economics are politics.)
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