{"id":548488,"date":"2006-04-10T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T07:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548488-eu-opens-online-domain-doors.html"},"modified":"2006-04-10T07:54:43","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T07:54:43","slug":"eu-opens-online-domain-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548488-eu-opens-online-domain-doors.html","title":{"rendered":"EU opens online domain doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Four months after public bodies were allowed to bid for .eu addresses, followed by businesses in February, private individuals can now set up websites using the 25-nation bloc&#8217;s signature suffix. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Today, Europe&#8217;s competitive knowledge society becomes very visible to the world on the internet,&quot; said Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;Europe and its citizens can now project their own web identity, protected by EU rules,&quot; she said, adding that she expected thousands to rush to make &quot;.eu a powerful domain name on equal footing with .com.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The .eu tag is not intended to replace the national identifiers used by the EU&#8217;s member states such as Britain&#8217;s .uk, France&#8217;s .fr or Germany&#8217;s .de, or indeed wider identifiers such as .com or .org. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">During the first, four-month &quot;sunrise&quot; period of registrations, some 320,000 businesses and institutions applied to use the .eu tag to give a distinctive European flavour to their websites or email addresses. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Perhaps tellingly, the list of most popular domain names so far claimed is headed by &quot;sex.eu,&quot; followed by other money-spinning business addresses as &quot;realestate.eu&quot; and &quot;hotel.eu.&quot; Some critics complained that the first two phases of the .eu application process were a bit complicated, but EURid insists it is clearer and simpler for individuals bidding for names in the &quot;landrush&quot; of applications from Friday. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Individuals can apply at one of some 1,500 registration centres, which will then pass the information on to EURid itself. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Applications are not limited to Europeans, but applicants must be able to prove European residence. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The cost varies &#8211; between 12 and 100 euros &#8211; depending on where you register. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A list of registrars is available on the website: http:\/\/list.eurid.eu\/registrars\/ListRegistrars.htm?lang=en. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) opened the doors to its own new domain name, taking applications from anyone wanting .eu as their online identity tag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}