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EURid wins .eu domain contract officially
22/05/2003
Brussels-based consortium EURid was today officially announced as the organisation that will run the new .eu domain registry.
This may cause a sense of deja-vu for many who read back on 20 March that EURid had won the contract. But that was a leak of the official document and the now the official document has been officially released so it's all kosher.
Fortunately this means that the director of the Belgian country-code domain, Marc Van Wesemael, is now able to give us a few more details over the upcoming domain (he was modestly reticent in March).
Firstly, and most importantly, when will the domain be available to buy? "The best case scenario is at the end of this year," Mr Van Wesemael told us. "However it depends on how long it takes to agree the contracts between the Commission and ICANN."
EURid estimates that from the time it has the contracts in its hand, it will be six months to when it is able to sell .eu domains. However, it is insisting that the public policy of the domain be written into the contracts and so there is the potential for lengthy discussion on what use .eu should be put to and how it should be run.
Mr Van Wesemael views are mostly formed though and are, unsurprisingly, based exactly on the system currently run by himself in Belgium. "We will be using the same model as in Belgium and the same UDRP rules," he told us.
That model is a hybrid of the American and British systems. In .com domains for example, the contract for a domain is between a registrant (the punter) and the registrar (like Register.com), with ICANN taking a very hands-off approach.
More details at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30826.html
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