.eu Fiasco - The Smoking Gun?

According to its own sample registrar agreement, EUrid was supposed to post the links to the domain registration sections of the registrar’s website.

Did EUrid change the rules to facilitate these bogus registrars?

In the sample EUrid registrar agreement, section 15.6 states that:

“The Registrar has the obligation to communicate to EUrid the exact reference of the part of its website where referral is made to the Domain Name Registration. EUrid has the right to record this reference on its own website so that End Users can contact the Registrar directly. EUrid also has the right to update this reference if it proves to be outdated.“

Interestingly, Bob Parsons mentions that registrars could “opt out” of having their registration url listed on the EUrid website.

Most of the bogus registrars do not have valid websites. EUrid is not operating .eu gTLD in a transparent manner. This points to EUrid colluding with these bogus registrars and betraying the interests of the citizens of the European Union.

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Written by John McCormac on April 12th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Mike OConnor
#1. April 14th, 2006, at 11:05 PM.

if .COM = “commerce” or “company” maybe, because of the events you are describing, .EU doesn’t mean “European”…

If these events become well-known, maybe .EU means “owned by, or purchased from, a domain speculator.” That’s certainly the impression that’s forming in *my* mind.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com John McCormac
#2. April 14th, 2006, at 11:24 PM.

It was a chance to do things right Mike,
Unfortunately EUrid and the Commission weren’t up to the challenge intellectually or technologically. Now .eu is just another version of .biz or .info and the sad thing is that the people in EUrid just don’t care.

The speculation angle could be fatal for the gTLD. If that perception of” owned by or purchased from a domain speculator” builds, then it could make people ignore .eu completely and concentrate on .com and ccTLDs.