[Today's Internet concern] top-level domain names on the Internet are the first in the EU

Chinese enterprises must "start first"
At ten o'clock A.M. GMT, December 7, the European Union launched its top-level Internet Domain Name ". EU" for the first time to strengthen the EU's image as a unified market on the Internet, in order to compete with the leading position of the United States in the Internet field.
Challenges to. com
From Wednesday, any enterprise that owns a registered trademark or subsidiary in any of the 25 EU countries can apply for a domain name ending with ". EU. It does not replace the current European country code suffix, for example, ". De" represents Germany, ". fr" represents France.
"We believe that this will be the most widely used top-level domain name after. com. "Said Jean Pierre, senior partner of Gevers & Partners, a Belgian intellectual property law firm. The firm is one of more than 400 registration institutions approved by the European Union to handle domain name applications. He said that the use of the same domain name in the entire EU region is the first time in history.
According to Verisign, as of now,. com is the most widely used domain name. More than half of the 85.6 million domain names in the world end with this. Second, it represents German domain name extension. de, accounting for about 10% of the total; then. net, accounting for about 7%. Pierre estimates that. EU, which covers 25 Member States and a population of 0.45 billion, will eventually occupy around 25% of the market. Some EU member States and other countries also use the. com suffix. This is because the computer network originated in the United States, and the United States also dominated the Internet accordingly. For American companies that are operating in Europe, selecting. EU will theoretically make things easier.
"Apply to use. fr, you must be a French; if you apply for. PT, you must be a Portuguese, and so on. This is absolutely unfair because everyone can apply for. com. "Said Michael Diz, co-founder and vice president of Los Angeles company meritline.com. He believes that with. EU, those country code will be useless. However, New York trademark lawyer Monica Litchman said they do not suggest companies apply for hundreds of different domain names, but she also thinks. EU will be a powerful market force.
10 thousand euros to buy one. EU?
Although the application for. EU has just started, the organizers have fully felt the enthusiasm of enterprises and individuals for. eu domain names.
This application is accepted by European private non-profit group eurid on behalf of the European Commission (European Commis-sion. The first stage ends in February 6 next year, targeting companies that already have registered trademarks in Europe. The second phase thereafter lasts for two months and is intended for companies that do not have a registered trademark in Europe. It has been intended for individuals since April 7 next year. The applicant can register with an intermediary company recognized by eurid, such as www.europeregistry.com. Eurid is expected to receive thousands of applications in a short time, but these applications cannot be successful.
However, industry insiders pointed out that. EU prices vary greatly depending on the public awareness of specific names. The registrar can determine the initial application fee and annual fee on its own. Registration adopts the first-to-first-served principle to deal with hot domain name preemptive registration disputes. To this end, some agencies charge customers thousands of dollars and rank their registration order in advance. For example, the registered intermediary company pool.com proposed a charge of up to 10 thousand euros, but the customer only needs to pay a deposit of 125 euros in advance, and only needs to pay 10 thousand euros after the domain name is successfully obtained.
For Chinese enterprises, insiders have warned that, due to the close economic and trade exchanges between China and the EU, enterprises engaged in business in Europe should be vigilant against the registration of. eu domain names of trademarks and enterprise names. For enterprises that have registered trademarks in Europe, they must apply to the relevant parties before January 1, February 6 next year. For Chinese enterprises that intend to enter Europe, they should consider proposing trademarks before January 1, April 6 next year. apply for an EU domain name. (Reporter Guan Jing)
News link: 19 Forbes rich domain names "endorsement" Cemetery
In the past few days, a post in Tianya community has aroused the attention of netizens. In the post "auction of the domain names of billionaires and funding the children of extreme poverty in the western region, A netizen claims that "the domain name of Forbes China's billionaire registered at the auction is used to aid the study and life of poor school students in the western region ". These websites registered with the names of Forbes richest people in China are actually a cemetery website.
The reporter found that a total of 19 Forbes rich domain names were snatched, and all pointed to the same cemetery website. The domain names of the richest people to be attacked include Forbes's 47-bit, Phoenix TV's boss liuchangle.com, and Forbes's 13-bit Eric Wu guodi (wuguodi.com ), forbes's 44-bit Dalian Wanda Chairman Wang Jianlin (wangjianlin.com), Forbes's 21-bit guangsha group chairman louzhongfu.com, and Forbes's 14-bit zhouzerong.com ), he xiangjian (hexiangjian.com), the 31-bit Forbes Chairman of Guangdong Shunde meide group, and so on, totaling 19.