Eligibility criteria for registering .eu domains extended to EEA citizens

Article summary

EURid has announced that, from 2 September 2020, EEA citizens will be able to register .eu and its variant scripts domain names regardless of where they live in the world. It follows an agreement between the European Free Trade Association and the EEA on 11 June 2020, to incorporate Regulation (EU) 2019/517 on the implementation and functioning of the .eu top-level domain name into the EEA agreement. EEA citizens from Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland will benefit from the change in eligibility, which was granted to EU citizens in October 2019. The aim of the new Regulation is to 'adapt to the fast-changing domain name industry and to strengthen and expand the link with the growing Digital Single Market, focusing on European values like multilingualism, privacy protection, and security’.