EU.org

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Free allowance: Free subdomain registration under EU.org; no page read states a renewal rule or a renewal fee
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, phone required
Binding limit: write-gatedevery registration needs a human to validate it and 'can take a few days'; no approval rate and no queue length is published
Evidence: documented22 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03

Free tier	free subdomain registration under EU.org; no page read states a renewal rule or a renewal fee unit objects; metered on none
Price	none stated
Limits	write-gated (binding) every registration needs a human to validate it and 'can take a few days'; no approval rate and no queue length is published source
Identity	email a contact with a name, an e-mail address (the form warns that Gmail addresses cannot receive the validation e-mail), a postal address of at least two lines and a country, with phone and fax optional; then a domain request whose nameservers already serve the zone, validated by a person in what the registration page calls a few days; no card (https://nic.eu.org/arf/en/contact/create/, https://nic.eu.org/register.html)
Egress	no query cap published
Per-object cap	no record count is published; the cap is the review, not a number
Retention	no term, expiry date or renewal step is stated on the home, policy, registration or direct-subdomain pages, and none exists in the account-area templates and registry source published for the eu.org project: its domain list shows Created and Updated dates, its domain page offers Delete Domain, or Undelete during the grace period, and has no renewal control, and its one expiry job removes a deleted domain after a 30-day grace period
Interface	unknown no API is documented: the contact and the domain request go through the web form at https://nic.eu.org/arf/; EU.org publishes only the NS delegation, so record management and any dynamic update are those of the DNS host the delegation names
Tooling	the nic.eu.org web form, then your own DNS provider
Composes with	a free domain that can be a Cloudflare zone, which is the only free option in this set that can
Reliability	the operator is a volunteer organisation and the review queue is the service
Notes	The gate is a person, not a number: a manual validation with no published queue length or approval rate. That is a discretionary throttle, and a design that depends on it has no ceiling to plan against.
Evidence note	documented the home, registration, general policy, direct-subdomain policy and contact-creation pages were read and quoted; they give the review time as a few days and state no renewal rule; the registry source and account-area templates published for the eu.org project hold no term, expiry or renewal feature for a live domain, but that source was last pushed in 2021 and the account area behind the sign-in is not readable without an account
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1

Evidence 22

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	nic.eu.org/register.html	the six-step registration process, whose step 6 is 'Wait for an e-mail reply indicating that your request has been validated. This step requires human intervention and can take a few days.'
2026-10-22	nic.eu.org/policy.html	the general policy: small commercial sites are accepted but 'VERY STRONGLY' asked to reserve a domain at an ICANN-accredited registrar instead
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/	registration is free; the home page says nothing of renewal
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/register.html	every request is validated by a person, in what the page calls a few days; the registration steps state no term and no renewal
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/arf/en/contact/create/	a Gmail address cannot receive the contact validation e-mail
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/top-policy.html	EU.org serves only the NS delegation; records live on the DNS host the delegation names
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/register.html	the account and the domain request are made in the web application at nic.eu.org/arf/
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/arf/en/contact/create/	the contact form asks for a name, an e-mail address and a postal address; name, e-mail, address lines 1 and 2 and country are required
2026-10-30	nic.eu.org/arf/en/contact/create/	the phone field carries no required attribute, so a phone number is optional
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/autoreg/co	the registry configuration sets 30 grace days for restoring a deleted domain
2026-11-02	www.nodeloc.com/t/topic/29964	a registrant reports in a November 2024 thread that a subdomain registered earlier is still alive and was never renewed
2026-11-02	api.github.com/repos/pbeyssac/autoreg	the repository is described as the source code for the eu.org project and its last push was on 2021-01-20
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/sample-con	the registry's sample crontab has one expiry job, a daily run described as domain grace period expiration
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/postgres/a	the registry's domains table holds created_on, updated_on and end_grace_period and no expiry or renewal column
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/autoreg/ar	the account area's domain page offers Delete Domain, or Undelete until the end of the grace period, and has no renewal control
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/autoreg/ar	the account area's domain list has the columns Domain, Created, Updated, DNSSEC and Flags and no expiry column
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/autoreg/ar	the account application's routes include domain edit, delete and undelete and list no renewal or extension route
2026-11-02	raw.githubusercontent.com/pbeyssac/autoreg/master/README.md	the repository README calls this the software that has run most of eu.org since 1996
2026-11-02	nic.eu.org/register.html	step 6 of the six registration steps: every request is validated by a person, in what the page calls a few days; the steps state no term or renewal
2026-11-02	www.nodeseek.com/post-104532-1	a registrant whose subdomains vanished from an account says there is no precedent of a domain being reclaimed and suspects an account takeover
2026-11-02	www.hostloc.net/thread-274687-1-1.html	a poster in a thread about a subdomain missing from an account says EU.org does not reclaim domains and that long-idle subdomains are still present
2026-11-02	nic.eu.org/	the home page states free subdomain registration and says nothing of a term, expiry or renewal

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interface: the access interface was not established