.eu Domains to Go on Sale in a Month

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.

Dibs on bl

[gEvil (beta)]

I should have sacre.bl.eu up shortly. Other subdomains will be available for low, low rates. Surprisingly, EURid says that it's actually still available...

Time to grab...

[mustafap]

All those french words end in eu.

Thats going to be a real Cadeau to some people.

Re:Dibs on bl

[liquidsin]

dibs on peup.eu

frack.eu

[Anonymous Coward]

I've got faq.eu and frack.eu lined up in my sights. ;)

Re:Dibs

[zoney_ie]

Well, French Connection will probably *actually* register http://fcuk.eu/ [fcuk.eu]

Re:But what domain will the EU use?

[bitt3n]

I expect all traffic from the US government will be forwarded to screw.eu

Common Words Ending With eu

[michaelaiello]

1. emeu
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.

Hmm

[ajs318]

ajs318@marijuana $ whois di.eu
% .eu Whois Server 1.0
%
% (c) 2005 (http://www.eurid.eu/
%
% The WHOIS service offered by EURid and the access to the records
% in the EURid WHOIS database are provided for information purposes
% only. It allows persons to check whether a specific domain name
% is still available or not and to obtain information related to
% the registration records of existing domain names.
%
% EURid cannot, under any circumstances, be held liable in case the
% stored information would prove to be wrong, incomplete or not
% accurate in any sense.
%
% By submitting a query you agree not to use the information made
% available to:
%
% - allow, enable or otherwise support the transmission of unsolicited,
% commercial advertising or other solicitations whether via email or
% otherwise;
% - target advertising in any possible way;
%
% - to cause nuisance in any possible way to the registrants by sending
% (whether by automated, electronic processes capable of enabling
% high volumes or other possible means) messages to them.
%
% Without prejudice to the above, it is explicitly forbidden to extract,
% copy and/or use or re-utilise in any form and by any means
% (electronically or not) the whole or a quantitatively or qualitatively
% substantial part of the contents of the WHOIS database without prior
% and explicit permission by EURid, nor in any attempt hereof, to apply
% automated, electronic processes to EURid (or its systems).
%
% You agree that any reproduction and/or transmission of data for
% commercial purposes will always be considered as the extraction of a
% substantial part of the content of the WHOIS database.
%
% By submitting the query you agree to abide by this policy and accept
% that EURid can take measures to limit the use of its WHOIS services
% in order to protect the privacy of its registrants or the integrity
% of the database.
% % WHOIS di
Domain: di
Status: APPLICATION PENDING

Looks like that one's probably going to be taken, then.