.eu - Another Bloody Landrush!

EUrid announced that it would have another sunrise for domains that were rejected during the Sunrise periods. The new landrush will take place on June 7th at 11:00 Hrs CET.
This is an excerpt from their press release:

The list of all the domain names that will be released on this date will be published on EURid website 2 weeks in advance, on May 24. By making the list of released names public beforehand EURid gives any interested parties a fair chance to register them.

It has been suggested that by publishing a list we are helping the cyber squatters. We believe that these people are well aware of the releases anyway by studying the WHOIS database. By publishing a list, EURid wants to give everybody, including those parties who applied for names during Sunrise, a chance to see when the names will become available again. It also allows EURid to be transparent in what is happening with the Sunrise domain names.

So EUrid becomes the friend of the European hosting industry and the potential EU domain registrant? It is hard to believe this is the same EUrid that colluded with the bogus registrars to allow them to plunder at least 43% of the .eu domains registered in the first landrush period. Strangely EUrid does not seem to be willing to publish a list of these squatted domains.

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Written by John McCormac on April 28th, 2006 with comments disabled.
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