.eu Fiasco - EUrid Launched Half-Ready Registry!

The fiasco that has become the .eu story took another nosedive when it emerged that EUrid launched without a facility to enable domain owners to transfer domains. People who had purchased .eu domains and had sold them on could not transfer ownership. Apparently the people in EUrid never expected .eu domains to be resold. If that really is the case, these EUrid people are too stupid to be in the domain business!

Domain owner transfer is a critical part of any modern registry system. But given EUrid’s disctinctly provincial flavour (it is the spawn of the Belgian, Swedish and Italian ccTLD registries), such an omission is not surprising. The idea of domains being traded and sold is quite anathema to the management of many ccTLDs in Europe.

The internet, it is said, routes around damage. The classic method for circumventing such antiquated regulations is to leave the registrant data but change the nameserver and contact data. So while as far as the registry is concerned, there has been no real change, the domain has long been traded on and the bills get paid.

But to launch a landrush without a proper working domain registrant transfer facility points to a staggering in the level of stupidity and incompetence in the management of EUrid. No amount of press releases to gullible “technology journalists” is going to make up for the damage these fools have caused the credibility of .eu gTLD. Apparently EUrid is working on the problem.

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Written by John McCormac on April 23rd, 2006 with comments disabled.
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