June 8th, 2006

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.eu Landrush 2 - Another Fine Eurid Mess

First, Eurid decided that it would release a list of .eu domains that would be available in the second landrush - all in the interests of transparency. Then it decided not to release the list of rejected .eu domains because it would help the bogus registrars that used EU front companies to snatch .eu domains during Landrush 1.

But it seems that nothing has been done about the bogus registrars issue even though the European Commission asked Eurid to investigate the problem. Isn’t that wonderful - get the same people who caused the problem in the first place to admit to it and take action? But would Eurid take action? It is far easier to take the money and claim nothing was wrong.

The same bogus registrars are there with their front companies. The same Eurid management are there. The citizens of the European Union are still being ripped off. Nearly 8% of the .eu gTLD is on sale on Sedo. Squatter companies account for a major part of the .eu registrations.

One confusing aspect is why the ADR is provided by the Prague-based Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic. Perhaps the agricultural aspect gives it a working knowledge of manure - very useful for dealing with Eurid and its friends with the dodgy Benelux trademarks. And because of Eurid’s incompetence, .eu is beginning to rot and stink as a gTLD.

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Written by John McCormac on June 8th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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