European Domain Name Gets Green Light
A European Union Web address took a critical step toward becoming a reality this week after gaining the approval of the Internet's domain-name oversight body.
Source: eWeekICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced Thursday that its board of directors has backed the creation of .eu, a country code top-level domain name first proposed by the European Commission.
The approval follows months of contractual negotiations between ICANN and EURid, the Leuven, Belgium-based registry selected by the European Commission to operate the domain.
The broad availability of .eu domain-name registrations remains at least a year away.
According to EURid, the next step for .eu will be its inclusion into the domain name system root, or master directory, within the next 10 days. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority oversees the root.
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