EURid Reactivates ON-HOLD Ovidio Limited .eu Domains

It seems that EURId, the .eu registry, has changed the status of the Ovidio Limited / Gabino Limited / Fausto Limited domains from ON-HOLD to REGISTERED. This move in the past few days is quite a surprise considering that EURid wanted to put the domains on the market again. But the action is believed to be a temporary one pending the outcome of the court action against the 400 bogus registrars for breach of contract.

This is what EURid posted on its website about these domains in July:

On 24 July 2006, EURid issued a press release stating that 74.000 domain names under the top level domain .eu had been put “on hold” awaiting further legal proceedings. That press release also stated that 400 registrars had been sued for breach of contract.

The domain names are still “on hold”, which means that the contact details of these domain names in the WHOIS register cannot be updated and as a consequence the domain names cannot be transferred. The proceedings are still pending.

EURid has not issued any clarfication yet.

Written by John McCormac on October 4th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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#1. October 5th, 2006, at 8:07 AM.

Domain Status Updated For Squatters - I Squatted Your .EU: John has posted about the change of status on the 74 thousand Ovidio domains, but Eurid has been deathly ...

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#2. October 5th, 2006, at 9:32 AM.

At a wild guess, it may be an interlocutary injunction (pending the full hearing of the case) if Belgian law is anything like Irish and UK law. But the case is proceeding and hopefully EURid will win. I don’t think that it is possible for EURid to comment due to the legal proceedings.