ICANN Approves New Top-Level Domain for EU

The international body in charge of managing Internet domains has given the official go-ahead to create the European top-level domain suffix .eu. At a meeting of its managing committee, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), authorized its president, Vint Cerf, to sign the agreement with Eurid, the consortium chosen by the European Commission as official caretaker of the new domain name.