By Jan Libbenga for The
Register
This article has been reproduced from The Register, with
permission.
The church Volle
Evangelie Gemeente Rehoboth in Eersel, close to the Belgian
border, was one of the first applicants for the domain name,
according to the database of EURid, the European body responsible
for registering .eu domain names. The church offered several
hundred euros to obtain the domain name for a website where sex
would be promoted "the way God wanted it", according to Chris
Vermeulen of the church.
Sweden's Yellow Register On Line AB which also applied
for travel.eu, music.eu, buy.eu, dvd.eu, search.eu, online.eu,
sell.eu and find.eu was the first applicant for sex.eu.
Third was an optician from Lilbourne, UK. Andrew Ian MacNab applied
for sex.eu several times, each time changing his name slightly. In
total there were 232 applications for the domain name.
The application is still pending. Trademark holders and public
bodies are the first to apply for registrations during the so
called sunrise period, which started last Wednesday. Holders of
company or business names will have to wait until February 7.
© The Register
2005
