The long running dispute over the domain “porn.ie” ended today when IEDR put the domain in the “Forbidden” category. This means that the domain cannot be registered. The move solves a lot of problems because there have been many attempts to register the domain. The renewal date is interesting though:
% Rights restricted by copyright; http://www.domainregistry.ie/copyright.html
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domain: porn.ie
descr: Forbidden
renewal: 12-April-2107
The “Forbidden” category of domain names in .ie ccTLD is generally used to stop the registration of other top level domains and similarly problematic domains. This particular domain has had quite a few applicants and is considered a valuable domain by domainers, speculators and those involved in the adult entertainment industry.
Tags: Irishblogs , IEDR , Domains , .ie , Internet Statistics , Comreg , domainnames
Written by John McCormac on April 12th, 2007 with 4 comments.
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The latest press release from the European Commission claims that “.eu one year on: over 2.5 million have taken up a European address on the web” This is a lie. According to EURid’s own statistics from its Annual report for 2006, the number of registrants with one domain name: 610679. The rest of the stats make interesting reading because they show how utterly corrupted the .eu ccTLD is due to its mismanagement by EURid.
Registrants with more than 10000 domains: 6
Registrants with 5000-9999 domains: 18
Registrants with 1000-4999 domains: 64
Registrants with 100-999 domains: 1257
Registrants with 10-99 domains: 20886
Registrants with 6-9 domains: 22933
Registrants with 5 domains: 13200
Registrants with 4 domains: 23007
Registrants with 3 domains: 42887
Registrants with 2 domains: 115543
Registrants with 1 domain: 610679
The number of small scale registrants in .eu ccTLD is only 1128424. The rest is warehoused and squatted. Hardly a success unless you are some kind of click and drool moron employed by EURid or the European Commission. But then this quotation in the press release from the European Commissioner for with responsibility for the .eu fiasco, Viviane Reding, really shows how utterly clueless the EC is about the damage that has been inflicted on .eu ccTLD by EURid: “I congratulate EURid as the independent not-for-profit registry responsible for .eu, for successfully managing the extremely high demand from industry and the public and for helping us to deploy Europe’s identity online. I welcome in particular the recent efforts made by EURid to make .eu-registrations swifter, safer and cheaper.”
EURid screwed up the landrush by allowing phantom registrars to warehouse hundreds of thousands of .eu domains. It failed to take competent action against these warehousing operations despite being warned. The main beneficiaries of the .eu price cuts are the warehousing operations with their own phantom registrars. The .eu ccTLD does not belong to the people of Europe. It was betrayed by an incompetent registry and ignorant fools in the European Commission. The European Union is synonymous with corruption, waste and incompetence. The history of .eu landrush and sunrise confirms that. The people of the European Union have no confidence in EURid or the .eu ccTLD. Stripping EURid of the contract to run .eu would go some way towards restoring that confidence. Until that time, .eu ccTLD is a rotting, maggot infested corpse of an extension with little or no relevance to Europe.
Tags: Irishblogs,Eurid, .eu Statistics, Domains, Webhoster Stats, Internet Statistics, Cyberwarehousing, domainnames
Written by John McCormac on April 12th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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