EU Domain Release Dates

Unlike with .com domains .eu actually lets you know when a domain is due for release ie. when it will be available for registration again.

For example:

% % WHOIS xxxxxxxxxx
Domain: xxxxxxxxxxx
Status: SUSPENDED(QUARANTINE)
Registered: Sat Apr 22 2006
Available: Sat Jun 9 2007

I’ve removed the actual domain name from the whois output as it belonged to a client, however you can easily see the difference in output.

With a live domain the output is like this:
% % WHOIS isquattedyour
Domain: isquattedyour
Status: REGISTERED
Registered: Mon Apr 24 2006
(I’ve removed the extra bits with DNS details etc)