To avoid confusion: ”This site has no relation with the European Union, despite its name.”[1]

> do not expire

The current expiration date for all eu.org domains is 2026-08-08[2].

[1] https://nic.eu.org/

[2] https://who.is/whois/eu.org

> EU.org domains can be registered for free and do not expire.

But "eu.org" is not a TLD.

If I were looking to register a domain for 10 years, the last thing I would do is put myself at the mercy of a middleman peddling subdomains.

Similarly for JS developers out there, https://js.org/ has free subdomains for anything related to JavaScript

See also https://www.getfreedomain.name for more free subdomains like that. I guess something like this is good enough for "a website", but you eventually end up getting what you paid for ...

.eu.org namespace isn't crowded either. I could register my first name with it, and gleefully kept it for a few years now. I have more trust with them to run it more than those novelty gTLDs that run all sorts of games to take as much money as possible.

I experienced my DNS service quitting and being unable to change my nameservers in EU.org; my email had changed, so automatic reset didn’t work, and guess how much tech support you get when you pay zero.

EU.org cannot be recommended for longevity.

Not sure if it applies, but when the UK left the EU, our access to EU domains was, predictably, cut off. Apart from the politics of it, it was jarring because domain names can be so pivotal to so many aspects of business and life.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...