General
- Extension
- .eu
- Type
- Country-code extension
- Meaning
- European Union
- Registry
- EURid vzw
- Registry website
- www.eurid.eu
- Registered since
- 28 April 2005
Properties
- DNSSEC signed
- yes
- Name servers
- 5 (4 with IPv6)
- WHOIS server
- whois.eu
- RDAP server
- none reported to IANA
- At 1blu
- available to order directly
Registration conditions
- Who may register?
- Citizens of the EU, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway regardless of residence, residents of these states and companies and organisations established there.
- Length
- 2 to 63 characters (after lower-casing and normalisation; for IDNs in the ACE form).
- Characters
- a–z, 0–9 and hyphen. No hyphen at the beginning or end and not in positions 3 and 4. IDNs in Latin, Greek or Cyrillic script, one script per name (Greek under .ευ, Cyrillic under .ею).
- Registrant data
- Name or organisation, address, e-mail, phone and language. Anyone living outside these states states their citizenship.
- Blocked names
- Some names are blocked or reserved by the member states, as are country codes.
- Transfer
- With a 16-character transfer authorisation code (TAC): the holder gets it from the current registrar or generates it in My .eu and gives it to the new registrar, who carries out the transfer. The code is valid for 40 days or until used. As a last resort, EURid issues an emergency TAC. Suspended domains cannot be transferred.
Sources: EURid: Rules for .eu · Regulation (EU) 2019/517 · EURid: Transfer authorisation code · EURid: My .eu · IANA Root Zone Database: .eu · As of 28 October 2026
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