When the Pan Africanist Congress , asmall opposition party with less than 1% support in the last election, took up the cause of the squatters last month, the issue became politicised.
The .eu domain name, due to be officially registered later this year, is likely to appeal to businesses which want a pan-European presence as well as being taken up both small traders and large corporations which already have a web presence, in a process known as defensive registration.