EU plans .eu domain launch in 2005
25 April 2005
The European Commission has announced that the new .eu web domain will be up and running by the end of this year.
Over the next few days, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) will put the .eu top level domain in the internet root following an agreement last month between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the .eu registry, EURid.
From the beginning of 2006, businesses and citizens who register .eu domain addresses will be able to benefit from higher visibility within the EU single market, according to the Commission.
European Commission information society and media commissioner, Viviane Reding, said: "The agreement reached between ICANN and EURid constitutes a landmark in the history of the .eu project. It gives the green light for the final technical preparations to permit .eu to become a reality before the end of the year".
The .eu suffix will be a new Top Level Domain (TLD) that will not replace any existing national TLDs in the EU, such as .de, .fr or .uk.
The Commission has made a number of preparations for the launch of the .eu domain during the last few years and has authorised EURid to negotiate with ICANN an agreement for its delegation. The Commission has now approved the agreement and EURid will be the body appointed by the European Union to run the .eu TLD for the next five years.
Before the .eu Registry can accept the first applications to register .eu names, EURid must accredit registrars and agree the details of registration policy with the Commission and other interested parties.
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