what benefits come along with being located in
the european union rather than a specific country of the eu?
i thought the .eu tld was not yet established?
(i didn't find valuable info at iana/icann or ripe,
nor have i ever seen the .eu tld in action)
and how come the eu is classified as country?
europa.eu.int for example is located in luxembourg
wouldn't the .eu tld be a generic tld?
>>what benefits come along with being located in
the european union rather than a specific country of the eu?
Both the same thing
>>why is it not a country
is .com ?
I think its just for diversity, and snapping up new names ;) no doubt there are some companies within the European Union that would do themselves no harm with a .eu TLD, while others would say (like you say....(why .eu???)
If it becomes flavour of the month in Europe, well.......ill see you there with one :)
The .eu domain shall be introduced as country code TLD,
even though strictly speaking the EU is not a country and thus
not on the ISO 3166-1 list
Particularly in some areas of Europe, there are entities that are all for a European Union. Some people may want to believe that the EU is comparable to the US (or maybe one day).
I can see all sorts of reasons for having a .eu, not really all political, more to do with relations within the EU, depending on your site etc yes? :)
I mean, the european charts (.eu) would be a nice start to the .eu era, in a cultural sense :)
To be honest, I dont anyone really knows the political/social boundaries etc when it comes to Europe! .eu sounds like a good idea though
i don't think one can compare the eu and the us, it's two totally
different histories and all... and i think first of all the political and uneconomical aims and attitudes define how alike countries are
(okay i admit, the desire to be an important economical power is probably
the one thing that unifies us all ;))
however, i'm lookin forward for the next years to bring new possibilities :)
to come back to the topic: an .eu domain sounds interesting to me, too
Generally I think TLDs were better off with indicating languages, not countries. Nationalities are not the main discriminating factor on the www, languages are.
De facto standard on the web is: com, net, org, info, biz are unspecific, all nationalities and languages, the rest tighing sites to places and often languages.
EU - it has some rather negative connotations for many people...
Nevertheless any additional open for all TLD is a nice thing.
I am just thinking of Google's national search engines delivering only e.g. German sites to searchers who choose that option. What will they see with .eu tld's of amongst others German sites?
>Google.de
Even in the third, most restrictive search option, "Seiten aus Deutschland" (Sites from Germany), as opposed to "Seiten auf Deutsch" (German (=language) sites), Google returns .net, .info etc sites.
In analogy to the .info and .net sites you mentioned, I guess the .eu will eventually have to be registered in Germany to qualify for the third most restrictive listing you mentioned within Google search?
Someone from France may skip X.co.uk,or X.de but may click on X.eu.
1, .co.uk
2, .eu
3, .fr
4, .de
etc
.de (if local availability is important for any reason)
.com, org, net, info, (anything that indicates general avalability, not restricted to language or locality)
.the rest: country TLDs, .eu,
