Your .EU domain name must follow these guidelines:
1) CHARACTER LIMIT
+ Domain name must be at least 2 characters and no more than 63 characters long without the EU category extension (example: in domain XXXX.eu, this limitation relates to the XXXX)
+ The IDN domain names, to be able to be used on the Internet, must be subject to a modification called ACE (ASCII-Compatible Encoding). The maximum length allowed to a IDN domain name is applied at the codified version of ACE, not the original name. In general this means that the numbers of available characters diminish
2) CHARACTER SET
+ Domain name can contain only latin letters ( a – z ), numbers ( 0 – 9 ) and hyphens ( – ) or a combination of these. This Character Set is called LDH: Letters, Digits, Hyphens ( a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 – )
+ Note that Domain Names are not case sensitive. This means there will be no distinction made between upper case letters and lower case letters (A = a). We recomend the use of lower case letters always
+ Special characters (such as !, $, &, “, and so on) are not currently acceptable
+ IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) are allowed. Complete IDN special caracter list.
3) DOMAIN COMPOSITION
+ Domain name must start and end with an alphanumeric character, not a hyphen
+ Domain name can not contain any space
+ Domain name can not contain a hyphen on the 3rd and 4th position of the second level domain name (www.ab- -cd.eu)
Source: www.eurid.eu
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