Brussels - US dominance of cyberspace will be challenged under plans being considered in Brussels to replace the ubiquitous ".com" suffix with a uniquely-European ending - ".eu", Ian Black reports.
Mr Erkki Liikanen, the Finnish Commissioner for Enterprise and the Information Society, plans to launch proposals allowing companies and other organisations to have a clearly European identity on the worldwide web. EU officials say the move would allow businesses all over Europe to have their own dedicated Internet domain name, dramatically boosting e-commerce within the single market.
