Comments on: EURid Slashes Prices As .eu Sales Collapse http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/ Search Engines, Domains, Statistics and Analysis Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:11:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-55568 Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:56:11 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-55568 EURid is run by people who are utterly incompetent and should never have been given the contract to run .eu ccTLD. They chose PwC BE to "approve" applicants' rights to domains and one ADR cited the highly automated nature of PwC BE's operation as being against the nature and spirit of rights validation. Given that around 81% of UK companies and businesses that applied for their business name as a .eu in Sunrise 2, there is something utterly incompetent about how PwC BE and EUrid handled the whole .eu ccTLD. EURId is apparently being audited by an exernal company at the moment and the results of this audit will probably be published later this month. However given the way that things work in the EU, they will probably be given a clean bill of health, despite screwing up the launch of .eu ccTLD on a massive scale and allowing non-EU and EU cybersquatters and warehousers to buy up over 60% of the ccTLD without taking any action. As for the joke of a legal department, they were notified of domains registered with clearly bogus information (US addresses with an EU country name in the country field) and these domains remain active. Such bogus registrations are commonplace because the onus is on the registrar to make sure that the registration was valid. Many didn't. As it stands, the .eu ccTLd is a disaster. The business community has no confidence in it. EURid made millions from the rejected applications. I would hate to think what will happen if anyone from Eurid ever turns up at an industry conference in Europe. EURid is run by people who are utterly incompetent and should never have been given the contract to run .eu ccTLD. They chose PwC BE to “approve” applicants’ rights to domains and one ADR cited the highly automated nature of PwC BE’s operation as being against the nature and spirit of rights validation. Given that around 81% of UK companies and businesses that applied for their business name as a .eu in Sunrise 2, there is something utterly incompetent about how PwC BE and EUrid handled the whole .eu ccTLD.

EURId is apparently being audited by an exernal company at the moment and the results of this audit will probably be published later this month. However given the way that things work in the EU, they will probably be given a clean bill of health, despite screwing up the launch of .eu ccTLD on a massive scale and allowing non-EU and EU cybersquatters and warehousers to buy up over 60% of the ccTLD without taking any action.

As for the joke of a legal department, they were notified of domains registered with clearly bogus information (US addresses with an EU country name in the country field) and these domains remain active. Such bogus registrations are commonplace because the onus is on the registrar to make sure that the registration was valid. Many didn’t.

As it stands, the .eu ccTLd is a disaster. The business community has no confidence in it. EURid made millions from the rejected applications. I would hate to think what will happen if anyone from Eurid ever turns up at an industry conference in Europe.

]]> by: Ian Jones - Web-Store Ltd http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-55440 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:00:43 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-55440 We were the sole applicant for our .eu for our domain during sunrise yet we still got rejected and the domain ended up with a domain name reseller under what we believe are questionable circumstances. See our full story at http://www.webstore.co.uk/document.aspx?id=eudomainfiasco.htm We were the sole applicant for our .eu for our domain during sunrise yet we still got rejected and the domain ended up with a domain name reseller under what we believe are questionable circumstances. See our full story at http://www.webstore.co.uk/document.aspx?id=eudomainfiasco.htm

]]> by: John McCormac http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-52846 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:37:17 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-52846 It has already been done with little effect. EURid just continue to botch things up. I wonder if the upcoming action against the Ovidio syndicate will be any different. Though the timing of the release is very convenient. It has already been done with little effect. EURid just continue to botch things up. I wonder if the upcoming action against the Ovidio syndicate will be any different. Though the timing of the release is very convenient.

]]> by: Richard http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-52827 Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:30:04 +0000 http://blog.whoisireland.com/2006/11/17/eurid-slashes-prices-as-eu-sales-collapse/#comment-52827 Sad. But what to do? Who is ultimately responsible for .eu? Not that it would make much difference, but should we be writing to MEPs? Would there be any value in putting up a complaint website where people could sign a petition for submission to the EC (or whoever the responsible body is)? Sad.

But what to do? Who is ultimately responsible for .eu?

Not that it would make much difference, but should we be writing to MEPs?

Would there be any value in putting up a complaint website where people could sign a petition for submission to the EC (or whoever the responsible body is)?

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