Belgian Court Forced EURid To Reactivate Domains

The reactivation of over 74000 .eu domains earlier this week was not EURid’s decision. It was forced upon it by a Belgian court according to a report in the International Herald Tribune. The court threatened EURid with a fine of 25000 Euros per hour per domain if it kept the domains ON-HOLD. EURid is appealing the court’s decision.
Apparently the Belgian court considered EURid’s move to put the warehousing operation’s domains ON-HOLD to be “unlawful”. This does effectively bring into question the whole idea of how the management of EURid could make such a mess out of something so simple. The EU legislation governing the administration of .eu ccTLD is powerful. EURid was alerted to the problem of these warehousing operations and bogus registrars but  the management ignored the warnings. Now it seems that the Tribunal de Première Instance de Bruxelles has allowed these warehousing operations to destroy the credibility of .eu ccTLD.

Written by John McCormac on October 6th, 2006 with 2 comments.
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