.eu
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| Type: | Non-Profit |
| Industry: | Internet |
| Founded: | 1999 |
| Headquarters: | Woluwelaan 150, 1831 Diegens |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Website: | www.eurid.eu |
| Key People | |
| Marc Van Wesemael, General Manager | |
.eu is the country code top level domain name (ccTLD) of the European Union. It is managed and operated by EURid, a non-profit organization founded by three registry operators namely DNS Belgium, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica and Stiftelsen för Internetinfrastruktur, IIS, under the authority of the European Commission. [1]
Background
In 1999, the eu was approved as the two letter-alpha code for the European Union by the ISO-3166 Maintenance Agency.[2] Subsequently in 2000, the European Council endorsed the creation of .eu TLD during its meeting in Lisbon to improve the electronic commerce within the European Union. On April 22, 2002, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union enacted Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 which calls for the implementation of the .eu ccTLD to represent and promote the image of European community in the global information networks.[3]
References
- ↑ www.eurid.eu
- ↑ www.iana.org
- ↑ http://www.eurid.eu/files/ec20733_en.pdf Regulation (EC) No 733/2002]