Ebay.ie Moves To Ebay

The .ie cctld is a minisule top level domain by .com standards. It has approximately 45000 registered domains most of which are Irish and Irish related. During the dot.bomb period, speculative domain registration was rife. Most of these speculative domains lapsed and were never renewed, the registrants disappearing as the dot.bomb tide receded into the distance of academic research. The Ebay.ie and Qxl.ie registrations had their own stories. They were registered by Irish limited companies of the same names but the companies had nothing in common with the internet auction businesses of of the same name. They were legitimate .ie cctld registrations. Both Irish companies had a connection to Irish auction website ebid.ie but were never active. The WIPO site shows that there was an action regarding Ebay.ie but the action was terminated. The Ebay.ie domain was transferred in the last two weeks to Ebay’s own nameservers.

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Written by John McCormac on March 18th, 2005 with comments disabled.
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