<nettime> .eu to challenge dot-com?

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Dot-EU to challenge dot-com?
By Elizabeth de Bony, IDG News Service
01/28/2000

The European Commission will propose the creation of .eu as a top domain 
name during its regular weekly meeting next week, a Commission spokesman 
said today.

The move reflects concerns that the European Union is losing out on the 
Internet, and that the creation of such a domain would send a political 
signal of the EU's commitment.

"We will lose out on the Internet if we do not introduce the .eu domain 
rapidly," said a senior Commission official who asked not to be identified.

The Commission proposal will be followed by six weeks of consultations with 
interested parties after which the domain name will be submitted to the 
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the 
organization that registers global domain names, said Per Haugaard, 
spokesman for Information Society Commissioner Erkki Liikanen.

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