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It will be painful for some but let's be honest, who here has seen many high profile .EU domains floating around?

by mothsonasloth 8y ago

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skilled 8y ago
Couldn't think of one...
- Doctor_Fegg 8y ago
  leave.eu :(
  - pgc 8y ago
    The disappearance of that domain is not a bug but a feature! :)
    - skilled 8y ago
      :)
  - skilled 8y ago
    gdpr.eu :(
philfrasty 8y ago
Just one example: GoDaddy bought the HostEurope group for €1.6B [1]. They own one of the largest domain-registers (and cloud providers) in the DACH region called Domainfactory. They reside on df.eu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group
eesmith 8y ago
For what it's worth, here are the unique .eu domains linked to on HN during the last two weeks, along with an example HN page: europa.eu (the most often posted .eu domain) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979027 . This is the "Official website of the European Union" sifted.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958342 . This is "The new media platform backed by the Financial Times". juliareda.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943510 . This is the site of a Member of the European Parliament from Germany, who is also a member of the Pirate Party Germany. jsconf.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912059 . "JSConf EU is the labour-of-love conference for the JavaScript community in Europe" elixirconf.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865236 . "ElixirConf EU is the premiere Elixir conference in Europe" 5gobservatory.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980769 . This is an organization directed by the European Commission. This was all done manually. Someone else might automate the task.

It will be painful for some but let's be honest, who here has seen many high profile .EU domains floating around?

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skilled 8y ago

Couldn't think of one...

Doctor_Fegg 8y ago
leave.eu :(
- pgc 8y ago
  The disappearance of that domain is not a bug but a feature! :)
  - skilled 8y ago
    :)
- skilled 8y ago
  gdpr.eu :(

philfrasty 8y ago

Just one example: GoDaddy bought the HostEurope group for €1.6B [1]. They own one of the largest domain-registers (and cloud providers) in the DACH region called Domainfactory. They reside on df.eu [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Europe_Group

eesmith 8y ago

For what it's worth, here are the unique .eu domains linked to on HN during the last two weeks, along with an example HN page: europa.eu (the most often posted .eu domain) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979027 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18979027 . This is the "Official website of the European Union" sifted.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18958342 . This is "The new media platform backed by the Financial Times". juliareda.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943510 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18943510 . This is the site of a Member of the European Parliament from Germany, who is also a member of the Pirate Party Germany. jsconf.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18912059 . "JSConf EU is the labour-of-love conference for the JavaScript community in Europe" elixirconf.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865236 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865236 . "ElixirConf EU is the premiere Elixir conference in Europe" 5gobservatory.eu - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980769 . This is an organization directed by the European Commission. This was all done manually. Someone else might automate the task.