ICANN approval moves .eu domain forward, ComputerWorld, 23 Mar 2005

“After seven and a half years, the domain-name suffix .eu is about to come to life. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that oversees technical matters related to the Internet, this week approved the application from the European Registry of Internet Domain Names (EurID) to take the new top-level domain (TLD) into ICANN's root files, the group said today.�

Full story at http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/websitemgmt/story/0,10801,100582,00.html?source=x10