TLD registry guide number 1: dot-eu
26 January 2010
Fionn O'Raghallaigh, London
Every week, Managing Internet IP will provide an independent guide to protecting domain names in a particular top-level domain. This week: .eu, the ccTLD for the European Union
Dot-eu is the country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the European Union, which was launched in 2005. Despite the EU not being a country in a conventional sense, Icann felt the political union warranted a ccTLD and approved it in 2005, with registrations for the new domain accepted from 2006.
How popular is the domain?
The ccTLD has proved a success with nearly 3.2 million domains registered to date. A total of 795,515 .eu domains were registered in 2009, of which nearly 57,000 were internationalised domain names (IDNs).
Is there anything unique about this domain?
It is the only domain that covers the EU area, and unlike .asia for example it is a ccTLD.
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