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Surfers rush to stake claim on EU online domain.
2006-04-07, HostMan.biz The European Union opened the doors to its own new Internet domain name, triggering a tidal wave of applications from surfers wanting .eu as their online identity tag. Within four hours of the EU green light over 700,000 applications had been made, with Britons being the most enthusiastic, followed by Germans and Dutch cybernauts. "Today, Europe's competitive knowledge society becomes very visible to the world on the Internet," said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. "Europe and its citizens can now project their own web identity, protected by EU rules," she said, adding that the rush of enthusiasm would help make ".eu a powerful domain name on equal footing with .com." Four months after public bodies were allowed to bid for .eu addresses, followed by businesses in February, private individuals can now set up websites using the 25-nation bloc's signature suffix. The .eu tag is not intended to replace the national identifiers used by the EU's member states such as Britain's .uk, France's .fr or Germany's .de, or indeed wider identifiers such as .com or .org. During the first, four-month "sunrise" period of registrations, some 320,000 businesses and institutions applied to use the .eu tag to give a distinctive European flavour to their websites or email addresses. Perhaps tellingly, the list of most popular domain names so far claimed is headed by "sex.eu," followed by other money-spinning business addresses as "realestate.eu" and "hotel.eu." Some critics complained that the first two phases of the .eu application process were a bit complicated, but EURid insists it is clearer and simpler for individuals bidding for names in the "landrush" of applications from Friday. Even so applicants have to provide documents to back up their application -- a requirement which led to some 100,000 requests being turned down during the sunrise period. Britons were quickest off the mark Friday: four hours after applications opened some 173,000 had staked a claim, followed by 144,000 Germans, 102,000 Dutch, 67,000 Cypriots, 55,000 Swedes, 27,000 French and 24,500 Belgians. "I'm more convinced than ever that Europe's top level domain .eu will soon become an attractive alternative to .com for European citizens and companies," said Reding. Individuals can apply at one of some 1,500 registration centres, which will then pass the information on to EURid itself. Applications are not limited to Europeans, but applicants must be able to prove European residence. The cost varies -- between 12 and 100 euros -- depending on where you register. In cases of dispute over claims to an online name, an online Arbitration Court has been set up -- physically based in Prague -- with the aim of avoiding costly conventional legal fees. The court has so far received about 60 requests "on which decisions are expected within the coming weeks," the EU commission said Friday. |
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