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Qualified certificates for website authentication (QWACs) allow users to identify who is behind a website. Aiming to increase QWAC uptake, the Commission has proposed an obligation for web-browsers to recognise them and make them more visible. The proposal has prompted fierce debate. While the Council agrees with the Commission and the Parliament is still debating its position, many stakeholders have raised concerns.

«.eu» es el nombre de dominio de la Unión Europea y de sus ciudadanos, y se utiliza desde 2005. Según la Comisión Europea, la existencia de un nombre de dominio específico para la Unión Europea bajo una etiqueta común clara y reconocible constituye un importante y valioso pilar de la identidad en línea de la Unión. La Comisión ha adoptado una propuesta para garantizar que el marco jurídico que constituye el dominio «.eu» siga cumpliendo la finalidad y los valores previstos y esté preparado para el ...

The scope of the problem could have been defined in more precise terms. Furthermore, it remains unclear how the proposed options could help achieve one of the two general objectives of the initiative namely enabling or building an online European identity as the options (including the preferred one) are mostly concerned with the technical improvements of the regulatory framework. Stakeholder views do not appear to be fully reflected in the report and it is unclear how they fed into the IA. A more ...

The .eu top-level domain ('.eu TLD') is based on Regulation (EC) No 733/2002 and was launched in December 2005. EURid, a Belgian not-for-profit organisation, manages the .eu TLD registry; .eu domain names can be registered through a network of 712 'accredited registrars'. According to the latest Commission report on the .eu TLD, at the beginning of 2015, with almost 4 million registrations, the .eu TLD ranked eleventh among the biggest top-level domains in the world (with '.com' heading the list) ...