The .EU Registry has laid down the following policies for registering or renewing domain names:

• The .EU Registry allows Registration/Renewal of a domain name for only one year. However, HostU / DWS allows you to place a Registration/Renewal action for multiple years. If you choose to register/renew your .EU domain name for more than one year, then HostU / DWS will renew the domain name at its end for the number of years selected. You can be rest assured that once this one year term in completed, HostU / DWS will Renew your domain name for a further year, until the renewal term you had requested ends.

• .EU domain names can only contain alphabets a to z, numbers 1 to 9 and hyphens. However, domain names cannot have two hyphens in the third place.

• The eligibility criteria for registering a .EU domain name is as listed below:

  • Undertakings should have their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Community

  • Organizations established within the European Community without prejudice to the application of the national law

  • Natural persons residing within the European Community

• Some names have been blocked or reserved by the European Commission and the Member states:

  • Blocked Names

    • List of names submitted by Member States of the European Community with regard to the geographical and/or geopolitical concepts which affect their political or territorial organization that may either

    1. not be registered, or

    2. be registered only under a Second Level domain, according to the public policy rules.

    Download the complete list of Blocked .EU names

    • Two-letter codes representing countries are blocked and may not be registered as .EU domain names.

  • Reserved Names

    • Member States, countries to join the European Union in the future, and member countries of the European Economic Area (that are not Member States) have reserved their official name and the name under which they are commonly known in one or more of the official languages of the European Union. 1

    • Certain names have been reserved by the European Commission for its own use or for use by the Community institutions and bodies. 2

    • The following names are reserved for the operational functions of the Registry:

      • eurid.eu

      • registry.eu

      • nic.eu

      • dns.eu

      • internic.eu

      • whois.eu

      • das.eu

      • coc.eu

      • eurethix.eu

      • eurethics.eu

      • euthics.eu

      1. 1. Download the complete list of .EU names reserved for Member States
      2. 2. Download the complete list of .EU names reserved for European Commission or Community institutions and bodies