25 April 2005
A new .eu web domain will be up and running by the end of this year, according to the European Commission.
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) are in the process of putting the .eu top level domain in the Internet root following an agreement last month between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the .eu registry, EURid.
The Commision hopes that businesses and citizens will benefit from higher visibility within the EU single market with a single .eu domain.
European Commission information society and media commissioner, Viviane Reding, said: "The agreement reached between ICANN and EURid constitutes a landmark in the history of the .eu project. It gives the green light for the final technical preparations to permit .eu to become a reality before the end of the year".
EURid must accredit registrars and agree the details of registration policy with the Commission and other interested parties before the .eu Registry can accept the first applications to register .eu names.© DeHavilland Information Services plc
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