EURid, the European Registry for .EU domain names, has announced that starting December 10, 2009, companies and individuals based in the European Union will be able to register .EU Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). IDNs are domain names that contain non-Latin characters such as the Swedish å, the German ü, the Romanian ş and characters from the Bulgarian and Greek alphabets as a whole. IDN support will enable companies and individuals to register second-level .EU domain names in any of the 23 official languages, many of which have non-Latin characters in their alphabets. Rather than having a sunrise period for existing registrants, EURid has decided to allow registrations on a landrush, first-come, first-served basis. Any disputes regarding these newly-registered domains will have to be resolved through EURid's Alternative Dispute Resolution process administered by the Prague-based Czech Arbitration Court.
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Vol. 53, June 2010