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The European Commission chooses EURid to
manage .EU domain names.
On May 22nd 2003 the Commission announced
that it has chosen the EURid consortium to run
the .EU TLD.
EURid is a not for profit organisation that is
built around the Belgian, Italian and Swedish
registries.
This decision is the latest step in the process of
creating a new European Top Level Domain extension.
EURid responded to the Call for Expression of
Interest that was launched by the European Commission
in August last year. A panel of independent experts
then evaluated the bids and indicated EURid as
the best choice to run the .EU registry.
In the coming weeks, negotiations will
take place between the European Commission and
EURid to finalise the agreement and to establish
the public policy for the .eu registry. Once the
administrative part is finalised, including the
delegation from ICANN, EURid estimates that .EU
can go life within the next 6 months.
It is clear that a lot of issues still need to be
resolved and that some will depend on the definition
of the public policy and on further negotiations
with the European Commission.
As soon as the new registry is formed and more
details about the registration processes are
coming up, we will inform you how you can
pre-register .EU domain names.
emerion will be one of the first registars offering
real pre-registrations based on the registry-level.
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