[thelist] New TLD .eu

[Ron White]

>From IDG:

The European Commission revealed Wednesday that it will rapidly move to
register its ".eu" address as a top level domain name.

"Within days, we will go to ICANN," referring to the Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers, the recently created new Internet governance
body, a Commission spokesman told IDG News Service.

For the Commission, the creation of a .eu domain is important to strengthen
the image and the infrastructure of the Internet in Europe by allowing
European industry and citizens to identify each other on the World Wide Web.

The domain name's creation is however also motivated by evidence that
existing generic top level domain name for commercial bodies, .com, is
already congested, according to the Commission.

Moreover, the new top level domain would let companies avoid the necessity
of registering in different EU countries, according to the Commission.
Currently, each EU country has its own domain -- ".fr" for France, for
example. The .eu domain would eliminate the existing country domains,
however.

Ok so what happens if foo.uk and foo.fr are owned by different people??

Thanks,
Ron White
Director of Technology
EdVerifY, Inc.
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