Blocked names

Certain .eu domain names have been blocked by the EU Member States. This means that they:

• May not be registered or;
• May only be registered as a second-level domain.

Many two-letter country codes, such as BE for Belgium or DE for Germany, have been blocked as well.

You can view the list of blocked names here. The list does not contain country codes.

Reserved names

A number of .eu domain names have been reserved for use by: the Member States, candidate countries, members of the European Economic Area, the European Union institutions.

You can see a list of these names in the annexes of regulations 874/2004 and 560/2009. Certain reserved domain names listed in regulation 560/2009 have been changed or deleted. See those names here.

EURid has also reserved the following domain names for its own use:

• eurid.eu
• registry.eu
• nic.eu
• dns.eu
• internic.eu
• whois.eu
• das.eu
• coc.eu
• eurethix.eu
• eurethics.eu
• euthics.eu

If you want to activate a reserved name, please follow the special activation procedure for reserved names.