.eu Domains to Go on Sale in a Month 109
conJunk writes "The BBC is running an article about the start of .eu TLD sales. From the article: 'The .eu domain was launched in December and opens to the public in four weeks. Trademark holders have had a 'sunrise period' since December to register their own trademarks... and all EU institutions will begin using the .eu domain in their web addresses from April next year.' Winners and Losers? Volkswagen scooped Ralph-Lauren for polo.eu by three and a half minutes." Update: 03/10 15:32 GMT by Z : Volvo != Volkswagen.
Anyone else thinking? (Score:2)
Possibly called lifesavers in USA
Re:Anyone else thinking? (Score:1)
Volvo Polo (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Volvo Polo (Score:1)
Swedish car.. German car... Both start with a V and come form that Europe place, so close enough for the submitter!
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Dibs on bl (Score:5, Funny)
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frack.eu (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Dibs on bl (Score:1)
If not...it's mine.
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The French, having a rather different approach to God than they once did, probably don't mind saying the latter so much any more, if they even use *that* expression. (I don't speak French, so the previous sentance is just a wild guess-- but a pretty reasonable one.)
Time to grab... (Score:3, Funny)
Thats going to be a real Cadeau to some people.
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Re:Time to grab... (Score:2)
You have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
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Re:Time to grab... (Score:1, Offtopic)
You ends in eu.
are ends in eu.
an ends in eu.
idiot ends in eu.
Re:Time to grab... (Score:2)
screw.eu
god, the possibilities are endless.
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Why would Volvo want polo? (Score:1)
Oh wait, TFA is correct.
Not like I should talk tho, linklexic that I am...
(ps: mondi.eu dibs!!)
organisation? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
Re:organisation? (Score:3, Interesting)
It's just not possible on today's Internet to meaningfully separate domains into a handful of arbitrary categories. Useful organization will require a new system; for most people, that system is Google.
Re:organisation? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:organisation? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:organisation? (Score:1)
Domains with
Also, by having different subdomains, you can charge different prices for them. org.TLD should be cheaper than co.TLD. Afaik, it's like that with the
Re:organisation? (Score:1)
Not the only one, apparently - a quick lookup shows that metropolitan.police.uk doesn't exist, either, it's met.police.uk. Odd.
Re:organisation? (Score:5, Informative)
"How did you know the URL?"
"Err.. it's the name of the force, followed by
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
There are also a few holdouts from before the
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
2nd, co.us is Colorado. We would have probably ended up with com.us endings had this caught on.
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
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Re:organisation? (Score:2)
Geography was the only really useful structure I ever saw out of the DNS system. It certainly would have made Google's life easier for google.local to have law.redmond.wa.us instead of lawyersofgreaterwashington.com.
Think if you could set your browser to a certain locality and automatically reduce name completion for the address to your city.
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
http://www.eurodns.com/preregister/eusunrise_2.ph
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
More to the point: How is this an "online rights" issue?
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
(runs away)
Re:organisation? (Score:2)
Not if I can get gay.eu.
Staggered registrations (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Staggered registrations (Score:2)
I ask, because there will no doubt be a huge rush at that domain.
I wonder, how would one even get that domain registered? Will someone with "connections" have the better chance?
Re:Staggered registrations (Score:2)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/13/church_bi
And no, I have no idea how someone can apply for sex.eu in the sunrise period
Re:Staggered registrations (Score:1, Informative)
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I was VERY surprised when I was applying to my
I found it when packing the proof and checking the condition terms. I had OFFICIAL declaration of ownership issued by state authority which means that it is a "public docu
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Registering .EU takes 100 days in my case (Score:3, Informative)
Yesterday they accep
Are you kidding? (Score:2)
Sucks that it has to be that way and I am certain they are not alone but it is what it is.
What takes 2 weeks here in America, often takes 2 months when you go abroad. I am
Why bother? (Score:5, Interesting)
I suspect many
Re:Why bother? (Score:1)
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Companies that operate internationally often already have a
Re:Why bother? (Score:5, Interesting)
The real purpose of new TLDs is to drum up revenue for registrars...
eliminate the others (Score:2)
While we're at it, it's no fair for the EU to get more than one vote in the UN. It seems the EU likes to be a country only when the circumstances suit them.
Common Words Ending With eu (Score:4, Funny)
2. eu
3. adieu
4. aeu
5. basbleu
6. beaulieu
7. bleu
8. boutefeu
9. calcasieu
10. camaieu
11. ceu
12. chisleu
13. feu
14. heu
15. jussieu
16. leu
17. lieu
18. meu
19. milieu
20. montesquieu
21. neu
22. pareu
23. pourlieu
24. priedieu
25. purlieu
26. reu
27. richelieu
28. seu
29. teu
30. virgalieu
31. weu
32. xeu
behold the power of grep.
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Common? (Score:2)
Calcasieu: A river you've never seen in Louisiana.
Most of these words have French origins. So, sadly, the French will benefit the most from domain name punning. Maybe phonetics would be better for us anglophiles:
theproudandthef.eu
wattsamatta.eu
p.eu
Other ideas? We must not lose an inch in the interlingual contest for stupidest web naming memes!
Re:Common Words Ending With eu (Score:1)
jonfavre.au? I guess that's Australian. (Or is it Austrian?)
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Hmm (Score:1, Funny)
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grep 'eu$' /usr/share/dict/words (Score:1)
lieu
Mathieu
Well this sucks!
microsoft.eu (Score:1)
It's Go! Go! for Dancing! (Score:1)
.cat: when did that appear? (Score:2, Interesting)
Slightly off-topic (but only slightly, it's European): has anyone noticed the emergence of the .cat tld? As in barcelona.cat [barcelona.cat]?
(I'd call dibs on cool.cat [cool.cat] but I can't find any registrar offering it).
Re:.cat: when did that appear? (Score:2, Informative)
Anyway, the organization in charge of the domain is here: http://www.puntcat.org/ [puntcat.org]
And cool.cat appears to be available
Re:.cat: when did that appear? (Score:1)
I find http://www.puntcat.cat/ [puntcat.cat] more informative. It looks to me like http://www.puntcat.org/ [puntcat.org] was the site used to campaign for the establishment of the TLD, http://www.puntcat.cat/ [puntcat.cat] is for registrations.
Unfortunately the sunrise period (until the 21st April, I think) has three stages and the last one is for any one of 68,000 people who supported the establishment of the domain (I guess those who signed a petition, or something).
Cool.cat may well have gone by April t
Re:.cat: when did that appear? (Score:2, Interesting)
Note the odd claim in the Wikipedia article about .cat:
ICANN has expressly prohibited the use of the .cat domain for pages about cats, unless they are written in Catalan or concerning Catalan culture.
Re:.cat: when did that appear? (Score:1)
No, apparently they've prohibited the use of the .cat domain for pages about ANYTHING unless they are written in Catalan or concerning Catalan culture.
From http://www.puntcat.cat/en_faq.html#p10 [puntcat.cat]
You need a valid EU address, or else.... (Score:1)
I know what I'll be reserving... (Score:1)
Re:Dibs (Score:5, Funny)
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I get a big fcuk.eu message.
Re:But what domain will the EU use? (Score:5, Funny)