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Many made the (somewhat reasonable) assumption that it was for EUrope, not the European Union.
by RobotToaster 3y ago
Many made the (somewhat reasonable) assumption that it was for EUrope, not the European Union.
- mod50ack 3y agoSure, but it never was — the .eu domain was for the European Union from the beginning, and the ISO code EU is for the European Union. The .eu domain was opened by agreement to the EEA (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway) countries as well. But Swiss registrants have never been eligible (except via citizenship/residency in one of the qualifying states), for example. When the UK left the EU, they didn't negotiate any EEA-style agreement to get access to .eu in their Brexit deal.
- Fnoord 3y agoThose are confused with *.eu.org which is a predecessor of the .eu TLD. See https://nic.eu.org https://nic.eu.org