Europe Gets a Name in Cyberspace
For the millions of Internet users in Europe, this is an exciting time, because the new .eu domain became available today to any European Union resident or any organization or company established within the EU. The European Commission is preparing for the official launch of this top-level domain, which is intended to supplement, rather than replace, existing domain names. Until the launch of .eu, Europeans starting an Internet site had to choose either a dot-com domain, which many around the world associate with the United States, or a national domain such as .uk for residents of the United Kingdom. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN — which manages Internet domains — has given the official go-ahead. The negotiations between ICANN and the European Registry of Internet Domain Names, or EURid, lasted nearly six months, though no one can explain what took so long. Until recently, ICANN had favored a strict limitation on new domain names.
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