EURid Putting .eu Domains ON HOLD?
Last week, the numbers of active .eu domains seem to stutter. EURid apparently decreased the number of active domains by approximately 4000. On some message boards, it appears that EURid has been sending out e-mails requesting verification of the registrant’s address. It seems that the address data provided on some registrations is not valid.
Some of these domains could have exploited a weakness in the EURid registrant validation process that only requires a valid EU country in the ‘country’ field. The registrars are, apparently, supposed to take care of the address verification. With such a gaping hole in the registry system, the chances are that the number of .eu domains with dodgy registrant data is a significant percentage of the active .eu domains. But then dealing with the problem might reduce the number of registered .eu domains to a more realistic level and it would look bad for EURid to lose so many domains.
Tags: Irishblogs,Searchengines .EU, Domains, .eu Fiasco, Internet Statistics, Eurid, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on September 25th, 2006 with
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