Final agreement on .EU domain names expected ‘this month’
.EU domain registry expects to sign a contract with the European Commission “by the end of the month”, ending over a year of deadlock.
.EU domain registry expects to sign a contract with the European Commission “by the end of the month”, ending over a year of deadlock.
Marc van Wesenmael, Director of EURid, which was selected to run .EU, told the EUobserver that the contract would be signed “certainly this month”, paving the way for .EU domain names to be available some time around the Summer of 2005 - “a realistic assessment”, according to Mr van Wesenmael.
This was confirmed by Commission sources which revealed that an announcement would be made towards the end of the month, without naming a specific date. The official was more optimistic on the implementation timetable, saying, “I would expect sometime around early next year”.
The breakthrough marks the end of over one year of wrangling over regulatory issues. The contract was awarded to EURid in May 2003, with the expectation that the .eu domain name would be ready for the end of 2003.
But differences between member states over how a domain name should be managed has stymied the project, according to Mr van Wesenmael.
A Commission official remarked that, in regulatory terms, the delay was not excessive, adding that “the devil is in the detail”.
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