Editing .eu (section)

===Establishment===
The .eu ccTLD was approved by [[ICANN]] on 22 March 2005<ref name=approval>{{cite web|url=https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2005-03-23-en|title=.EU Update|work=ICANN|date=23 March 2005|access-date=28 November 2019}}</ref> and put in the Internet [[DNS root zone|root zone]] on 2 May 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://eurid.eu/media/filer_public/d3/85/d38538c1-dac5-4e28-a779-cc31b8259697/boek_dot_eu_v05.pdf|title=Check out our domain name: .eu is now in the internet root|work=EURid|date=2 May 2005|access-date=26 June 2006}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Even though the EU is not a country (it is a [[sui generis]] [[Intergovernmental organization|intergovernmental]] and [[Supranational union|supranational]] organisation), it has an [[ISO 3166-1 alpha-2#Exceptional reservations|exceptional reservation in ISO 3166]]. The Commission and ICANN had extended negotiations lasting more than five years to secure its acceptance.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.icann.org/resources/unthemed-pages/liikanen-letter-2000-07-06-en | title = Letter from Erkki Liikanen (EU Commission) to Mike Roberts (CEO, ICANN) regarding .eu Top-Level Domain | date=  6 July 2000 | access-date= 29 November 2019 | publisher = European Commission}}</ref>

''.eu.int'' was the [[subdomain]] most used by the [[European Commission]] and the [[European Parliament]], based on the [[.int]] [[generic top-level domain]] (gTLD) for international bodies, until 9 May 2006. The .eu domain (ccTLD) was launched in December 2005, and because of this most .eu.int domain names changed to [[.europa.eu]] on [[Europe day]], 9 May 2006.