Europe to get its own top domain to compete with '.com'

The European Parliament and the European Council have decided to implement the domain '.eu'.

The names under this domain will be available to individuals, authorities, organisations and businesses in the European Union, according to the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

The practical registrations will be handled by EURid.

GAO reveals 5% of domain name registrations include false data

Research conducted by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to determine the accuracy of information on domain owners, has revealed that over 5% of the Internet's most popular domains have been registered with false data.

Around 300 domain names were taken at random from each of the .com, .net and .org registries and the GAO checked the centrally held information, which is available to the general public through the 'whois' websites. The GAO found that the identity of many owners had been hidden, suggesting that many websites are a front for net criminals such as phishing gangs and spammers.

Owner data for 5.14% of the domains appeared to be fake - using false phone numbers, invalid postal codes and made-up addresses. An additional 3.65% of domain owner data was incomplete or missing in at least one field and the report concluded that measures to improve records of domain owners are currently ineffective.

Based on the domain names checked, the GAO estimated that owner details held for the 3.89m of the 44m registered domains for .com, .net and .org are false in at least one field. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) oversees the domains and the GAO urged that more effort be put into checking domain owner details are given correctly.

New .eu domain opens to EU public
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The .eu domain suffix has been opened to all citizens of the European Union (EU) following a four month 'sunrise' period to enable companies with trademarks to reserve corresponding domains.
Over 335,000 organisations reportedly applied for a .eu domain within the four month period, with 95,000 of those understood to involve conflicting domain claims. Eurid, the .eu administrator said interest has been significant so far, though it is unable to predict the number of registrations expected.
Germany accounted for 28.2% of .eu domain applications followed by the Netherlands (16.6%), France (11.1%), the UK (9.4%), Italy (6.1%), Belgium (5.1%), Sweden (4%), Denmark (2.9%), Czech Republic (2.9%) and Spain (2.8%).
Thousands of domains relevant to the European Commission, which has backed the .eu domain, have been reserved and may not be purchased by anyone else. Over 1,500 companies have signed up to sell the .eu domains, which are rane in price from EUR12 to EUR100. Lycos claimed the .eu domain may eventually challenge .com in terms of importance.

Registrations for '.eu' domain can now be accepted by Zen Internet
Topic: domain

UK-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) Zen Internet announced on Monday (3 October) that it has become an accredited registrar for the '.eu' domain, and as a result can accept pre-registrations.
According to the company, the '.eu' domain has been launched by the European Commission to enable businesses and individuals to create an EU-wide identity on the Internet and will join addresses such as '.com', and national identities such as '.uk' and '.fr'.
The ISP will be pre-registering all requested domain names for when EURid, the operator of the new '.eu' top-level domain, begins the registration process.
In the first period of the launch (Sunrise 1) public bodies and holders of registered names and trademarks will be assigned their domains, Zen said.

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