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Accented .EU domain names open on December 10th at 11:00 CET!

Ryan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:31:00 +0100

From December 10th 2009 EURid, the registry that is in charge of the .EU zone, will allow domain names to be registered that include accented characters for the first time. This is of course a great benefit to the 28 countries of the European Union where accented characters are very common: http://www.eurid.eu/en/eu-domain-names/idns-eu.
There will not be a Sunrise period to guarantee protection of existing trademarks. The registry has chosen to use the "first-come, first-served" approach. This means that if you already own a domain name in its unaccented version, you will not be given priority for buying the same domain in its accented version. For more information on .EU Internationalized Domain Names (IDN), we recommend visiting their FAQ on the topic.

You can already start placing your accented .EU domain order requests at Gandi! All pre-registration requests will be sent to the registry (in the order that we received them) on December 10th. Orders that cannot be completed will be fully refunded. To pre-register an accented .EU domain name at Gandi, simply write it in its accented form in the domain name search box on Gandi's home page.

As a reminder, the IDN System is specified by RFC standards 3490, 3491 and 3492. This system is now recognized by all modern web browsers (ex. http://www.스타벅스코리아.com). However when using IDNs for email, only the encoded version (below) is recognized at present. It is not possible, for example to have an email address like ryan@스타벅스코리아.com.

Technically, the "special" characters are encoded using a conversion table. This is why an IDN domain name will begin with the four characters: xn––. For example: bébé.eu becomes xn-–bb-bjab.eu. So ryan@bébé.eu would become ryan@xn-–bb-bjab.eu for use in email.

IDNs are also now available on a first-come, first-served basis!

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A .EU for 0.10 Euros ?!

Ryan — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:00:00 +0200

Here is a little fall surprise for our European customers: As a result of our Sale on EU domains, we have "won" a certain number of domains at the registry, EURid. To help you benefit from this occasion, we are dropping the price of .EU domains to 0.10 euros excluding VAT, for the next 4,000 .EU domains, until August 31st at 23:59 CET!!

These domains can only be created for one year, and paid for by credit card, prepaid account, or PayPal.

So you no longer have any excuse to not have your own .EU domain (well, unless you don't live in the EU zone... ;))

Sale on .EU domains

Ryan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:21:00 +0200

Following a promotion at the registry. We will be offering .EU domain creations for €4 excl. VAT instead of €12 excl. VAT. This sale will last until August 31st and does not concern renewals or transfers.

European weekend!!!

Ryan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:51:00 +0200

Over the past few months, hopefully you will have noticed that we have been offering you an increasing number of European extensions. This is our current mission, and I can assure you that it sometimes borders on epic proportions!

This is so that we do not forget that are are part of a larger union, Europe, and that all of us have an important role to play this weekend: vote!

So in honour of this special occasion, Gandi is having a promotion that will help your presence be felt more strongly across the various European extensions.

Note! this promotion will only be valid as of 2:00 PM CET today, and will run to midnight on Sunday. Here are the rates (excl. VAT) that we are offering, and which are only valid for creations:

.EU at €9 instead of €12
.FR at €9 instead of €12
.BE at €9 instead of €12
.LU at €23 instead of €30
.DE at €9 instead of €12
.CH at €9 instead of €12
.LI at €9 instead of €12
.CO.UK and .ORG.UK at €10€ instead of €12 for 2 years
.IM at €15 instead of €18
.ES at €9 instead of €12
.CAT at €32 instead of €36
.IT at €10 instead of €12
.NL at €9 instead of €12
.AT at €4 instead of €12€ HT (registry promotion underway)
.PL at €9 instead of €12
.ME at €14 instead of €16
.CZ at €13.5 instead of €18
.RU at €25 instead of €28

(Note: the rates have been lowered in the other currencies as well see http://www.gandi.net/domain/price/info)

And even if you don't want anything do to with these extensions, please...get out and vote!
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3,000 .EU domains left for €1 excl. VAT!

Ryan — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:57:00 +0200

A promotion at the .eu registry will allow us to provide .eu domain name creations for only 1 euro, excl. VAT. This promotion will last between Thursday May 29th at 8:00 GMT and June 15th at 22:00 GMT, and is limited to a total of 6,000 domains registered by Gandi as part of the promotion; Renewals and transfers are not included.

NOTE (June 9th 2008): there are 3,000 .eu domain registrations left at the €1 excl. VAT price

.eu domains for €1 excl. VAT!

Ryan — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:36:00 +0200