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European Union approves creation of .eu domain

Will Knight ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 11 May 2000 16:30 BST

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The EC's Council of Ministers voted that the new domain be available to institutions, private users and corporations within Europe.

It is hoped that the creation of this new domain will consolidate the identity of pan-European businesses and boost the prestige of Europe's Internet industry as a whole.

The European Commission decided that the domain may be maintained by a unique non-profit organistion but that it will be protected by ICANN ( Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

ICANN hopes that the creation of extra domains will help stem the growing nuisance of cyber-squatting and recently supported the creation of a whole range of new addresses.

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I wonder, who needs .asia domain? I cannot imagine, what would be useful for Microsoft.asia? Toyota.asia? Then let's register .europe (if .eu is too short). Or perhaps Microsoft.southamerica, Dell.australiaandnewzealand, Coca-Cola.africa... Sound funny? Then why not just use the global and country domains? Or perhaps it is time to drop the domains at all?

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