07 April 2006 Blog Home : April 2006 : Permalink
Citizens of the European Union can now buy an internet domain bearing the .eu suffix.
The public are getting the chance to buy .eu domains following a four-month period that let firms reserve domains to match their trademarks.
Unfortunately the key EURid websites, such as where you have to go to do a whois or find a registrar, have gone titsup.eu and has been dead in a variety of states all of this morning, so that BBC article appears to be slightly over-optimistic. Given that the persiod from April 7 was called "landrush" by EURid itself and given that, as the BBC quotes a Lycos spokeman saying,"It's the most important top level domain we have ever seen,"
you might think they'd have got around to building a website that could handle the load...