It seems that some of the Irish cyberquatters are now offering their purchases for sale at exorbitant prices.At least one company has been contacted with regard to the sale of a couple of .eu domains for €2500 each! … [Read more...] about Squatters Offer Domains To Irish Companies
Archives for June 2006
Eurid Don’t Care
Eurid don't seem to care about cybersquatters.According to an article published by out-law.com the registry is only concerned with the holder's details making them eligible to register the domain.EURid now says that it will confiscate domains at any time if they are found to have broken the rules. "If we find that someone has provided inaccurate or misleading information … [Read more...] about Eurid Don’t Care
Transferring a .eu – the saga continues
I finally spoke to someone with a clue (TM) today who managed to push my transfer request along (translation - restart the entire process) and I have now got emails from Eurid to confirm my actions... … [Read more...] about Transferring a .eu – the saga continues
adr.eu Finally live
Looks like the Czech court finally got round to setting up their DNS, so now Adr.eu actually resolves....Took them long enough! … [Read more...] about adr.eu Finally live
IEDR Head Suspects High Level Of Squatting
David Curtin, head of the Irish Domain Registry (IEDR) suspects that there are a high number of domains being squatted in the .eu namespace. Speaking to Silicon Republic Curtin made reference to the numbers of .eu domains registered to Irish companies during both the landrush and sunrise periods:According to Curtin, to date 24,754 .eu domains have been registered from … [Read more...] about IEDR Head Suspects High Level Of Squatting
Squatters Lose .eu based on technicality
The domain frankfurt.eu like many others, was assigned to Traffic Web Holding B.V. a company registered in the Netherlands. Interestingly the same company registered:Short before the start of the sunrise period, on 30 November 2005, Traffic Web Holding B.V. filed in total 822 trademark applications with the Benelux Trademark officeSo how can a private company justify that … [Read more...] about Squatters Lose .eu based on technicality