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Are there any reserved/blocked names?

Member states of the European Union were allowed to submit a limited list of broadly recognised names with regard to geographical and/or geopolitical concepts which affect their political or territorial organisation that may either not be registered, or be registered only under a second level domain according to the public policy rules.

Alpha-2 codes representing countries shall not be used to register domain names directly under the .EU TLD. The two-letter codes for countries are defined by the International Organization for Standardization through the Maintenance Agency of the ISO 3166 country codes. Those codes that appear in the ISO 3166/1 list and the ISO 3166 reserve list are blocked and may not be registered as .EU domain names.

EU blocked domains list: Broadly recognised names with regard to geographical and/or geopolitical concepts which affect Member States' political or territorial organisation
Block List 1

Reserved domains 1: Member States, countries due to join the European Union in the future, and member countries of the European Economic Area (that are not Member States) were allowed to reserve their official name and the name under which they are commonly known in one or more of the official languages of the EU.
Block List 2

Reserved Domains 2: reserved by the European Commission for its own use or for use by the Community institutions and bodies Block List 3