Public Policy Rules Article 8

Article 8

Reservation of names by countries and alpha-2 codes representing countries

1. The list of names set out in the Annex to this Regulation shall only be reserved or registered as second level domain names directly under the .eu TLD by the countries indicated in the list.
2. Alpha-2 codes representing countries shall not be registered as second level domain names directly under the .eu TLD.

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History

This Article was modified by Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1654/2005. The original wording was as follows:

Article 8

Country names and alpha-2 codes representing countries

⁽¹⁾ Member States (and acceding countries) may request that their official name and the name under which they are commonly known in one or more of the official languages (of the Community as extended in May 2004) shall not be registered directly under the .eu TLD by any person other than their national government. To that end, each Member State (or acceding country) shall send the Commission, within two months following the entry into force of this Regulation, a list of those names requiring to be reserved, as well as a designation of the body that will represent the national government in registering the names.

⁽²⁾ The Commission shall notify the Registry of the names that shall be reserved and the bodies that represent the national governments in registering the names.

⁽³⁾ Candidate countries that are not due to join the European Union in May 2004 and member countries of the European Economic Area that are not Member States may request that their official name and the name under which they are commonly known in their own language and in any of the official languages as from May 2004 shall not be registered directly under the .eu TLD. To that end, those countries may send the Commission, within two months following entry into force of this Regulation, a list of those names which are not to be registered.

⁽⁴⁾ The Commission shall notify the Registry of the names that shall not be registered.

⁽⁵⁾ Alpha-2 codes representing countries shall not be used to register domain names directly under the .eu TLD.

Bilingual versions of this Regulation

Original wording

[CS] [DA] [DE] [EL] [ES] [ET] [FI] [FR] [HU] [IT] [LT] [LV] [MT] [NL] [PL] [PT] [SK] [SL] [SV]

Bilingual versions of Regulation (EC) No 1654/2005

[CS] [DA] [DE] [EL] [ES] [ET] [FI] [FR] [HU] [IT] [LT] [LV] [MT] [NL] [PL] [PT] [SK] [SL] [SV]

Notes

A list of the blocked Alpha-2 codes representing countries can be found here.