EURid Incompetence Irritates Registrars
From reading the reports of what went on at the Eurid presentation at the Lisbon ICANN meeting, it is clear that the registrars are less than pleased with EURid’s incompetence. Michele has a good write up here and Heise.de also covered it.
The reports above are staggering as they show how a registry should not be run. How these refugees from the Stone Age ever got the contract to run the .eu ccTLD is beyond me. After all, DEnic (the operator of the .de ccTLD - one of the biggest ccTLDs in the world) and Afilias were also in the running for the contract. Instead the European Commission and its panel of “expert” advisors gave the .eu ccTLD to a consortium that was mainly DNS.be with some input from the Swedish, Italian and Czech registries.
As for the software that EURid got from DNS.be - it seems that it was missing critical functions such as multi-year renewals and transfer operations. But one quote from the Heise.de article is really funny: “To create a system that is compatible with .com, .net, .org or .de is not the most important thing. Rather, our focus is on safety and security from the user’s perspective,” Peter Janssen, Technical Manager at Eurid, declared.” Perhaps if .eu ccTLD had been run by a competent registry that had not allowed .eu to be plundered on a large scale by cybersquatters and warehousers, users would have some confidence in .eu as a viable extension. The management of EURid and the European Commission betrayed the citizens of the EU. The .eu ccTLD is no longer the domain of the citizens of the European Union.
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Written by John McCormac on April 3rd, 2007 with
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#1. April 3rd, 2007, at 12:46 PM.
But do you know why multi-year registrations are out?