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EURid
Formation	8 April 2003
Type	Internet domain registry
Location	European Union;
Website	eurid.eu

EURid vzw (European Registry for Internet Domains) is the nonprofit organisation appointed by the European Commission as the domain name registry that operates the .eu top-level domain and its variants in other scripts – .ею (.eu in Cyrillic) as of 1 June 2016, .ευ (in Greek) as of 14 November 2019.

Operations

Established in Belgium, with its headquarters located in Diegem, EURid is a consortium of two European ccTLD operators: DNS Belgium (.be) and IIT-CNR (.it). In May 2003 the Commission designated it as the .eu domain name registry.^[1]^[2]^[3] In October 2006, EURid opened their first branch office in Stockholm. Two further branch offices were opened in Italy and the Czech Republic since then.

EURid uses the Extensible Provisioning Protocol (EPP) which enables registrars to perform operations on .eu domain names directly.

EURid's website^[4] is available in the 24 official languages of the European Union.

Organisation

Strategic committee

EURid's strategic committee consists of:^[5]

Sandra Hoferichter (Chairwoman)
Pedro Oliveira (Vice-Chair)
Marco Pierani
Luc Hendrickx
Marco Conti
Delia Belciu
Marie-Emmanuelle Haas
Piet Spiessens
Tomáš Maršálek
Marko Bonac
Jakub Christoph
Luca Cassetti
Franck Thomas

Management team

EURid's management team consists of:

Peter Janssen (General Manager)
Juan Carlos Munguia Coca (Finance Manager)
Hans Seeuws (Business Operations Manager)
Geo Van Langenhove (Legal Manager)
Els Verstappen (Human Resources Manager)
Dirk Jumpertz (Security Manager)
Jordi Iparraguirre (Innovation Manager)
Nathan Meurrens (Technical Manager)

Domain holders outside the European Union

Residents, companies and organisations based in countries within the European Economic Area (EEA) but outside the European Union are able to use .eu domains, namely Iceland, Liechtenstein or Norway.^[6]

On 1 January 2021, EURid disabled all domains belonging to UK individuals and businesses following Brexit, upon which the United Kingdom left the EEA.^[7]