Mad Rush to Purchase .eu Domains

By Nate Mook | Published April 7, 2006, 1:15 PM

The European Union's .eu top-level domain name was opened to the public Friday, with businesses and individuals rushing to stake their claim on the Web's newest frontier. Over 700,000 registration applications were received in the first four hours of the domain going live. The EU hopes to provide a real rival to .com after excitement over other new domains largely fizzled out.

Registrations for .eu domains run between 12 and 100 euros through over 1,500 registrars partnered with EURid, the company charged with managing the Internet's latest addition. Britons were the quickest to grab .eu names, followed by Germans and the Dutch. .eu is not intended to replace country-specific domains such as .uk or .de, but rather provide companies who operate across multiple countries a useful alternative.

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Bah, the Cook Islands definately have the coolest domain.

http://www.google.co.ck/

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Now thats funny. :P

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peee.eu!

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Well, over a million .eu domains have been registered already. It seems promising that it will eventually be quite a large section of the net.

Germany and the UK seem to be the main applicants to date, but it's early days yet.

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eeeuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The French will probably like this, since they have a large number of words ending in "eu".

And that, gentlemen, is what an applicable and appropriate post for this subject should look like. :-)

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Someone posted a lot of "common" words ending in "eu" on slashdot a while ago...

Not a single one of them was *not* french in origin.

How common they were could be argued, but I suppose that depends a lot on your native language.

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You guys ever hear that famous French singer crooning Blue, Blue World in his language? It's unbearableu...........

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Nope.

Heard of Pink, though.

And Frank Black...

And Barry White...

But no Blue ('cept for maybe the infamous "Blue Man Goup")

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Microsoft-shafted-by-the.eu

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Anyone registered the "ihatethe.eu" domain name yet?

Kidding...

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Don't kid; it's gone.

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aww, well thats just a bummer. lol

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