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.eu Domains by year-end

Posted by ben_b on 23 May 2003 - 20:19 · 10 comments & 1065 views

The European Commission has decided to designate EURID (European Registry for Internet Domains) as the Registry for the dot EU (.eu) Top Level Domain (TLD). The .eu is intended to become the European identification of websites and e-mail addresses. The three founder members of EURID are currently managing the country codes .be (Belgium), .it (Italy) and .se (Sweden). Two associated members are from acceding countries. EURID has committed to consult stakeholders from the European Internet Community and to ensure contacts with regional and international organizations involved in the Internet.

View: The Sydney Morning Herald - .eu likely to be operational by year-end

View: Europa - EU Domain

View: netimperative - EURID wins .eu management

News source: netimperative : Latest internet business news & research

Hello everybody,

I have a good and a bad news. The good news: I just installed a beta version of MSN Messenger 6 and let me tell you that it's a great update! The bad news: apparently, Microsoft did some things on purpose to avoid Messenger Plus! to work, which theorically means that this summer, the release of MSN Messenger 6 will sign the death certificate of Messenger Plus!. I'm going to try to work on a sollution to go around the problem but I'm not very optimistic.

I'll keep you informed,
Patchou

Well, Messenger Plus! was one of the very first add-ons done for Messenger so it's not like I was the one who took the ideas of others. And in any case, there's a lot of feature in Plus! you won't be able to find in any other add-on, for different technical reason.

I want to be clear on one point: I'm also 100% sure that Microsoft did that on purpose. It's not just "we updated and oh, too bad, your software can't work anymore".... they did some things especially to avoid Plus! to function.

For those who are interested in technical mambo jambo, here is the problem: the chat windows of Messenger 6 are now constitued of only one child window, a custom class made by Microsoft. It means that Plus! do not see any edit box, button or whatever other control. I don't know how they did it but it's like these control do not exist.

Still working on the problem, I'll keep you informed. What I'll probably do next week is release a small update so that, at least, Plus! disables itself correctly when ran with Messenger 6.

Patchou

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#1 Posted by Neobond on 23 May 2003 - 20:23: I wonder who registers screw.eu first

#2 Posted by dougkinzinger on 23 May 2003 - 20:31: well rock on eu.....

(2 replies) #3 Posted by ben_b on 23 May 2003 - 20:38: Would anyone here buy a .eu domain?

(1 reply) #4 Posted by xGarrett on 23 May 2003 - 20:43: What about the co.uk domains? Will anything happen to them?

(1 reply) #5 Posted by xGarrett on 23 May 2003 - 21:07: Dunno, I figured they were part of the EU. Sorry, I'm a retard and didn't hit the reply button. please forgive me.

#6 Posted by Digital Oracle on 25 May 2003 - 22:14: e-4-u not care

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