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.
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Pronounced "ewwww." Think I'll register www.stinkyfrenchman.eu
Durnit... you beat me to it!
Okay. So now we have to use www.microsoft.eu, GM.eu., IBM.eu, Citibank.eu, McDonalds.eu, Disney.eu ...
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