Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear

Europe gets green light for Internet .eu extension



PARIS (AFP) - Europe will be able to launch its own Internet extension -- .eu -- in early 2006, the French Web site domaines.info that specializes in the registration of domain names said.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved Monday the .eu extension which will be used by businesses and individuals that want to give their activities a European dimension.


ICANN (news - web sites), a non-profit organization set up in 1998 at the initiative of the US government to respond to requests to do business on the Internet, has been authorized to sign an accord with EURid, the Belgium-based registrar of European domain names.