[FernandoMax]

It seems more like "free sub-domains" not domains.

EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative.

These things are quite unstable. I've seen URL shorteners (even one from goo.gl) and URL "redirectioners" and a lot of things like that disappear. Like Geocities in the wind.

Sadly only archive.org is a source of memories.

[cal85]

“Since 1996” seems very stable for a free URL shortener, if true.

Edit: but I agree with your main point, .eu.org isn’t a real TLD as they make out in the title.

[mtVessel]

Is it a static page? Nothing on it indicates it has been updated since, say, 1997.

[mike_d]

> EU.org is not endorsed to any European Union initiative.

EU.org predates the European Union.

[MrPromethee]

A website created in 1996 doesn't predate an organization founded in 1993. However, it does predate the .eu domain.

[dontbenebby]

> It seems more like "free sub-domains" not domains.

Is a free subdomain free?

You make it orders of magnitude easier to do weird tracking if you use an overly specific subdomain rather than placing things "after the slash".

To give a case study:

I had an old housemate freak out when I questioned their integrity and they said "that was after the slash" -- I used to pay for the internet and collect $ for it, I didn't log anything and asked folks to not share the WPA(2?) password.

He also told me he took a special route to campus because some of the undergrads didn't close their blinds, then took umbragen I decribed him to others with the wrong adjective.

(At least when I look out my window with a pair of binoculars, it's to look for tacticool weirdos, not titties worse than what you can find for free with a simple Bing search[1])

//[1] and please forgive the wall of text, bootstrapping new social networks post COVID has been harder than expected, since the folks who were very predatory about gatekeeping the definition of espionage freak out if you point out GDPR is a European law, and I've been a permanent resident of Pennsylvania all my life.