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ICANN Approves .eu Domain Space

The European Union (EU) can now make a name for itself on the Internet, following this week's approval to include .eu as a country code top-level domain (ccTLD).

Directors at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved the new name space at a meeting Monday. Officials at EURid, who will take over registry management of the ccTLD, expect final approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce within the next week.

Over the next few months we will be working very hard on the final preparations with the aim of launching the .eu sunrise period later this year.

Kieran Baker, a spokesman at ICANN, would not comment on the speculation, pointing to the popularity of Germany's .de, the second largest domain extension on the planet, as well as the United Kingdom's .uk, which ranks fourth in popularity worldwide.

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