78% of Irish Businesses Fail To Get .eu in Sunrise 2

The .eu Sunrise II phase was meant to give business owners a chance to protect their firms’ names. However this has not been the case for Irish businesses. If you look at the number of Irish firms that have had their registrations accepted it is far less than those who have had their registrations rejected:

Accepted COMP-ID: 131
Rejected COMP-ID: 479

That’s over 78% of Irish firms that have had their Sunrise II registrations rejected by PwC BE. They now have to make the descision as to whether it is worth taking an ADR action against PwC BE’s decision or taking the risk of trying to get their .eu domain when it is released as part of the Landrush phase.

But the odds of getting their domains when they are released are poor. Most of these mini-landrushes are dominated by bogus registrars and the domains end up on some domain auction site or as a PPC advertising page.

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Written by John McCormac on September 22nd, 2006 with 2 comments.
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