Last week in Luxemburg, the European Commission and EurID signed a contract signalizing the important next step toward making the .eu TLD a reality.
The .eu domain offers European-based organizations an ideal
European-wide identification alongside the .com, .net, .org, generic designations, and the .de, .fr, .co.uk, ... national domains.
A 'sunrise' period has been built into the start-up of .eu registrations. Organizations able to prove ownership of a Registered Trade Mark for any of the 25 EU countries, or a Community Trade Mark, will have priority for the first two months of .eu domain sales. This will be followed by a further two months when any organization or person with an official address in any of the EU countries will also have precedence. After that, anyone can apply to register any as-yet unregistered name as an .eu Domain name.
EuroDNS, a European-wide domain name registrar offers details about the sunrise period.
