EURid Blocks 10K Buycool.com/Zheng .eu Domains

EURid has blocked over 10K .eu domains that were registered by Chinese cybersquatting/cyberwarehousing operation Buycool.com/Blogdo.com/Zheng Qingying. French domain news site Domainsinfo.fr broke the story about how EURid is finally taking action.

The Buycool.com/Blogdo.com/Zheng Qingying cyberwarehousing operation has been using a UK phone number and a UK postal address as a claim to have been domiciled in the EU. However a string of ADRs has forced the incompetent management of EURid to reconsider things. Most of these ADRs have been taken by European intellectual property rights owners who have had their .eu domains cybersquatted by Zheng Qingying.
EURid management screwed up the launch of .eu ccTLD and allowed it to be overrun with cybersquatters and domain warehousers. Of the 2.5M .eu domains registrered, at least 1M are warehoused/cybersquatted. Most European businesses do not consider .eu to be a premium extension and have concentrated on maintaining their brand in the local ccTLDs and .com. As regards the brand visibility of .eu - most Europeans are not aware of it.

But then the European Commission and its “expert” advisors gave the administration of .eu ccTLD to a third rate ccTLD venture. The disaster that followed was widely predicted but the morons in EURid management ignored the warnings.

A court ruling on the activity of the Chinese cybersquatter Zheng Qingying is expected in September and the cybersquatted domains may be deleted. Just some of the domains from the 10K or so domains make interesting reading:

a-cappella.eu, a-drive.eu, a1waste.eu, aadler.eu, aaefx.eu, aanekoski.eu, aar-treuhand.eu, aareal-bank.eu, aaroadwatch.eu, aartkok.eu, abc-arbitrage.eu, abc-wassersport.eu, abctranslations.eu, abelag.eu, abelenstra.eu, abiuk.eu, abmoto.eu, abnamroprivatebanking.eu, abocard.eu, abs-products.eu, absautoherstel.eu, absbox.eu, absolight.eu, acadia-pharm.eu, acces-direct.eu, access-music.eu, accessiweb.eu, acceurope.eu, accidentline.eu activebanking.eu
bankforeningen.eu, bankhaus-lampe.eu, bankpost.eu, bankpuliabas.eu, berenbergbank.eu, boekenbank.eu, britishsafetycouncil.eu,brittas.eu, byblosbank.eu, capital-bank.eu, castell-bank.eu,
ge-money-bank.eu, gls-bank.eu, grondbank.eu, hqbank.eu, hsbcprivatebank.eu, iombank.eu

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Written by John McCormac on August 28th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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#1. August 30th, 2007, at 6:29 PM.

.EU alla prova dei cybersquatters | De Dominibus: Come ricorda Whoisireland il gruppo Buycool.com/Blogdo.com/Zheng Qingying é giá tristemente noto per questo tipo di attivitá, e per l’aver ...