03/11/05
European commission reserves 1400 .EU domain names
Recently Brussels published a list containing some 1400 .EU domain names, related to geographical concepts, that are reserved for the European States. This in order to avoid others from hijacking these domain names for their own purposes.
Belgium has reserved 131 domain names. Germany has done so for 141, Spain did 131 and Luxemburg only 3. The reservations were not only for the members of the European Union: the candidate member states – Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria, Roemania – as well as members of the economic area – Liechtenstein, Iceland, Norway – could also prevent the risk of domain hijacking for their future .eu addresses.
A number of the reserved domain names contains so called 'diacritic' characters (IDN), like accents or characters typical for a local language or dialect, what could explain the introduction of the DNS type IDN.
Click here to retrieve the blocked domain name list.
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