Your article describes exactly the situation with EURid.
Our eu-Domain name is blocked by Bollywoodstars or Fienna Ltd., whom ever you want to blame.
We have our .org-domain-name already for more than 10 years.
Bollywoodstars calls itself a registrar and is listed at EURid, but I could not find their Web presence.
We are a private internet group of cat lovers for information purposes only and pay by ourselves for the fun to provide a free-of-charge-list without any advertisements, thus we cannot afford to file a complaint against EURid or Bollywoodstars at the ARD to regain our eu-domain name.
So, we are the so called small people in those registration-games, and we are the loosers in getting our eu-domain name. We had applied for a reservation of our eu-domain also at GoDaddy in the 3rd phase of sunrise period and had lost the game. We failed to get the reservation.
So I wonder what happens with those companies like Bollywoodstars and its many fake-daughter-companies, who all actually do not exist but act as registrars and block thousands of domain names.
I wonder, if for the small people there are other possibilities to get such fake-registrars stopped.
Best regards for our group
Eveline Preiss
Our eu-Domain name is blocked by Bollywoodstars or Fienna Ltd., whom ever you want to blame.
We have our .org-domain-name already for more than 10 years.
Bollywoodstars calls itself a registrar and is listed at EURid, but I could not find their Web presence.
We are a private internet group of cat lovers for information purposes only and pay by ourselves for the fun to provide a free-of-charge-list without any advertisements, thus we cannot afford to file a complaint against EURid or Bollywoodstars at the ARD to regain our eu-domain name.
So, we are the so called small people in those registration-games, and we are the loosers in getting our eu-domain name. We had applied for a reservation of our eu-domain also at GoDaddy in the 3rd phase of sunrise period and had lost the game. We failed to get the reservation.
So I wonder what happens with those companies like Bollywoodstars and its many fake-daughter-companies, who all actually do not exist but act as registrars and block thousands of domain names.
I wonder, if for the small people there are other possibilities to get such fake-registrars stopped.
Best regards for our group
Eveline Preiss
As a legal owner of my family name I apply for its registration during the sunrise period while sending identity documents as a proof.
My application was rejected and as I never imagined that someone else could be interested in this domain I was slow a reapplying through my registrar. The pb, of course, is that the domain name was caught by realtime.at, a bogus registrar of course, the day it was released.
realtime.at, as for some TLD wants 100 EUR (w/o VAT) by domain, with a minimum deposit of EUR 1000 as a warranty.
Be sure that if you're not a huge customer you'll never see your deposit again and realtime.at can always simulate (and stimulate you) another bidder the day you'are applying : EUR 1100, that's enough to make a little simulation isn't it ?
They write in little characters at the bottom of a page that the rule is now based on first arrived but the whole site make us believe that EurId could refuse a new application for a SunRise rejected domain.
Of course that's wrong !
After the Sunrise period, any domain can be applied and will be accepted.
In fact, that was my fault. I was afraid to loose my domain and make the mistake to apply during the sunrise period.
After the sunrise I applied for 3 other family-related domains that were, of course, accepted immediatly.
My conclusion is that, as for the .com a few years ago TLD like .eu are now become a very dirty brand.
Should a class-action again the Eurid start in the furture I'll be of it.
db
My application was rejected and as I never imagined that someone else could be interested in this domain I was slow a reapplying through my registrar. The pb, of course, is that the domain name was caught by realtime.at, a bogus registrar of course, the day it was released.
realtime.at, as for some TLD wants 100 EUR (w/o VAT) by domain, with a minimum deposit of EUR 1000 as a warranty.
Be sure that if you're not a huge customer you'll never see your deposit again and realtime.at can always simulate (and stimulate you) another bidder the day you'are applying : EUR 1100, that's enough to make a little simulation isn't it ?
They write in little characters at the bottom of a page that the rule is now based on first arrived but the whole site make us believe that EurId could refuse a new application for a SunRise rejected domain.
Of course that's wrong !
After the Sunrise period, any domain can be applied and will be accepted.
In fact, that was my fault. I was afraid to loose my domain and make the mistake to apply during the sunrise period.
After the sunrise I applied for 3 other family-related domains that were, of course, accepted immediatly.
My conclusion is that, as for the .com a few years ago TLD like .eu are now become a very dirty brand.
Should a class-action again the Eurid start in the furture I'll be of it.
db
A Belgian court forced EURid into changing the status of the Ovidio syndicate domains. The court ordered EURid to unblock the domains or face a fine of 25000 Euros per domain per hour for each hour that it kept a domain ON-HOLD. EURid is appealing this decision.
The reactivation of the Ovidio syndicate names may be temporary as the court action against the 400 phantom registrars appears to be underway. Hopefully EURid will win the action and proceed to take out a few other warehousing operations that are active in .eu ccTLD.
EURid seems to have reactivated the Ovidio Limited syndicate domains. The domains were in ON-HOLD status but those checked are now showing REGISTERED status. These were the domains that EURid was making all that noise about making them available for re-registration. At best this might be a mistake with the WHOIS data. At worst EURid have managed to banjax the whole .eu ccTLD and deserve to be stripped of the contract to administer .eu ccTLD. Throughout Europe, .eu is thoroughly discredited as a TLD for businesses.
Have a look here http://status.eurid.eu/consolidated.html to read the statitics:
30 % of all applciations are rejected. As at today (15sep2006) 57000 applications have been rejected by the EURid out of 190000 validated applications. Assume each applicant pays EUR 175, then EUR 10 Mio is evaporated!
Assume that of the 2 Mio .eu applications about 30% will be rejected, the aggregate of opportunity losses of all rejected applications will amount to EUR 1 Billion!
What a scam!
30 % of all applciations are rejected. As at today (15sep2006) 57000 applications have been rejected by the EURid out of 190000 validated applications. Assume each applicant pays EUR 175, then EUR 10 Mio is evaporated!
Assume that of the 2 Mio .eu applications about 30% will be rejected, the aggregate of opportunity losses of all rejected applications will amount to EUR 1 Billion!
What a scam!
Unfortunately to much scam and cheating still on all ends of the web. The Internet that can do so much good but also as much harm. To many missuse it just for fast $ with as little as much work with no prisoners taken.
I hope that the people in charge finally get it that they deal with a powerful and valuable good and need to take care of it correspondingly.
Felix
I hope that the people in charge finally get it that they deal with a powerful and valuable good and need to take care of it correspondingly.
Felix
The 74000 .eu domains put on hold by Eurid deflects from the scale of the cyberwarehousing problem. Each registrar can register 1000 domains with its prepayment of 10000 Euros. That means, potentially, that these 400 phantom registrars being sued by EURid could have registered 400,000 .eu domains if they had used their initial prepayment allocations.
Also Diane Wallis a British Liberal MEP (Member of the European Parliament) has called for an investigation into the handling of .eu - she is on the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs committee so it may be interesting to see if anything comes of this.
Also Diane Wallis a British Liberal MEP (Member of the European Parliament) has called for an investigation into the handling of .eu - she is on the EU Parliament's Legal Affairs committee so it may be interesting to see if anything comes of this.
This is the third in a series of articles I’ve written about the gross mishandling of the .EU domain
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EURid's action against Ovidio/Fausto/Gabino Limited was a start. However there are still hundreds of phantom registrars yet to be dealt with. The Ovidio syndicate had the highest profile and was the easiest target.
Some of the other phantom registrars have been smarter and are a bit more dispersed. Hopefully, EURid is currently investigating these other phantom registrars and will take similar action in the next few weeks.
I've been mapping .eu domains (and blogging about the .eu fiasco). Ovidio stood head and shoulders above the other cyberwarehousing operations. Tempus Enterprises is a significant problem but there are other warehousing operations that stand out.
Many of the Ovidio syndicate domains are pointed to Sedo parking pages. So even though EURid has put the domains on hold, they are not deactivated.
Some domains that were grabbed by Ovidio are up for release in August. Interestingly these domains are ones that Ovidio had grabbed in the landrush.
Some of the other phantom registrars have been smarter and are a bit more dispersed. Hopefully, EURid is currently investigating these other phantom registrars and will take similar action in the next few weeks.
I've been mapping .eu domains (and blogging about the .eu fiasco). Ovidio stood head and shoulders above the other cyberwarehousing operations. Tempus Enterprises is a significant problem but there are other warehousing operations that stand out.
Many of the Ovidio syndicate domains are pointed to Sedo parking pages. So even though EURid has put the domains on hold, they are not deactivated.
Some domains that were grabbed by Ovidio are up for release in August. Interestingly these domains are ones that Ovidio had grabbed in the landrush.
eurid punishes hijackers (starting with Ovidio)
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EurID punishes Ovidio Limited
Ovidio Limited seems to have a problem.
EURID blocked all their .eu applications! (about 30.000 to 85.000!!!!)
Cpoy the link below for the news item:
http://www.eubis.eu/content/nieuws.asp?newsid=34
This is a very important decision of EURID, because they actually admit that the registration process has been hijacked...!
I am wondering what the effect will be and what's next in the dotEU soap!
What's your opinion?
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EurID punishes Ovidio Limited
Ovidio Limited seems to have a problem.
EURID blocked all their .eu applications! (about 30.000 to 85.000!!!!)
Cpoy the link below for the news item:
http://www.eubis.eu/content/nieuws.asp?newsid=34
This is a very important decision of EURID, because they actually admit that the registration process has been hijacked...!
I am wondering what the effect will be and what's next in the dotEU soap!
What's your opinion?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/24/eu_domains_suspended/
Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued
Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued
Good news here ! 74,000 .eu domains suspended ! 
Its seem that the EURid has taken legal action. further article at theregister.co.uk
Good job M.Parsons
Its seem that the EURid has taken legal action. further article at theregister.co.ukGood job M.Parsons
EURid suspended 74.000 Domains registered by phantom registrars.
http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/news/eurid-suspends-74 -000-eu-domain-names-due-to-breach-of-contract
http://www.eurid.eu/en/general/news/eurid-suspends-74 -000-eu-domain-names-due-to-breach-of-contract
GOOD NEWS FROM EUROPE!!
Hi,
Something had happened!!!!! We ( me and few other registrars) have noticed, that the statistics had dropped from 2.045.00 registered domain names back to 1.975.000. And EURid was celebrating the 2 million! I thought - what is going on? We even contacted EURid, but they gave no answer, it figures. What we did find is that all the domain names regsitered in the name of Ovidio have status ON HOLD. It means, that they got 70000 domian names! Finally they got to the americam registrars. Now this is european way. They thought they're gonna get away with it, now it's gonna cost the money and the domain names. And what's even more clever - if EURid will relase all the domain names taken from Ovidio on the same day - WOW! Can you imagine?
Hi,
Something had happened!!!!! We ( me and few other registrars) have noticed, that the statistics had dropped from 2.045.00 registered domain names back to 1.975.000. And EURid was celebrating the 2 million! I thought - what is going on? We even contacted EURid, but they gave no answer, it figures. What we did find is that all the domain names regsitered in the name of Ovidio have status ON HOLD. It means, that they got 70000 domian names! Finally they got to the americam registrars. Now this is european way. They thought they're gonna get away with it, now it's gonna cost the money and the domain names. And what's even more clever - if EURid will relase all the domain names taken from Ovidio on the same day - WOW! Can you imagine?
We would like to express our deep concern with regards to the EURid eu. domain registration process.
Apparently EURid has done nothing to stop opportunists such as Ovidia Limited from scooping up all the domain names they can get their hands on and then holding them for ransom.
We applied for our domain back in December, 2005 and got rejected. After months of communication with EUrid and meaningless answers like: "In no sunrise landrush no document needed", or "You probably never occupied a good
internal ranking ", etc. we reapplied for it during Landrush II which took place on June, 7 2006, in which the domain names that had been rejected before became available.
We were outraged to find out that our domain as well as more than 400 others were given to Ovidia Limited through 400+ fake New York registrations.
Apparently Ovidia is registered in Cyprus, but no further
information is available- they do not even have any legal webpage!
One must also ask why PricewaterhouseCoopers was paid several million dollars to audit the process and determine the validity of the companies if the
whole process was a farce?
Neither EURid nor the European Union has taken a single step in relation to the countless incidences of fraud. In all fairness to the legitimate businesses that have trusted that this process would be conducted in a fair and equitable manner, all those extortionists who were awarded domains should-at the very least- be refused access in perpetuity and have PWC award those domains to the proper commercial party.
Apparently EURid has done nothing to stop opportunists such as Ovidia Limited from scooping up all the domain names they can get their hands on and then holding them for ransom.
We applied for our domain back in December, 2005 and got rejected. After months of communication with EUrid and meaningless answers like: "In no sunrise landrush no document needed", or "You probably never occupied a good
internal ranking ", etc. we reapplied for it during Landrush II which took place on June, 7 2006, in which the domain names that had been rejected before became available.
We were outraged to find out that our domain as well as more than 400 others were given to Ovidia Limited through 400+ fake New York registrations.
Apparently Ovidia is registered in Cyprus, but no further
information is available- they do not even have any legal webpage!
One must also ask why PricewaterhouseCoopers was paid several million dollars to audit the process and determine the validity of the companies if the
whole process was a farce?
Neither EURid nor the European Union has taken a single step in relation to the countless incidences of fraud. In all fairness to the legitimate businesses that have trusted that this process would be conducted in a fair and equitable manner, all those extortionists who were awarded domains should-at the very least- be refused access in perpetuity and have PWC award those domains to the proper commercial party.
The release of the rejected domains of landrush 1 was a complete desaster as well. .eu is sold off by domaingrabbers.
Only the tip of the iceberg is tempus enterprises Ltd.
You can read more at: www.no-product.eu or
www.tempusenterprises.eu
Only the tip of the iceberg is tempus enterprises Ltd.
You can read more at: www.no-product.eu or
www.tempusenterprises.eu
REPLY FROM EURID.
07/06/06
Dear Sir,
We would like to thank you for your email and inform you that your complaint has been escalated to our legal department where the matter will be looked into.
The purpose of the Sunrise period was to make sure that anyone who had a legitimate prior right to a name had the opportunity to apply for that name as a .eu domain name. The names that will be released after Sunrise are those for which no one could prove a prior right and therefore these names will become available to register for anyone fulfilling the general eligibility criteria.
Please note that according to the EC Regulation 874/2004, the registry may revoke a domain name of its own initiative exclusively on the grounds of the holder's non-fulfillment of the general eligibility criteria or where the contact details provided are erroneus.
In cases where there is a suspicion regarding speculative or improper registration of the registered domain name, any interested party is free to start an appropriate judicial or extrajudicial procedure against domain name holder.
Regarding the possibility of registering many domain names:
Some of registrants used more than one registrar what increased their chances. There was no obligation to use only one registrar. Some registrars provided online systems to which their clients tried to connect today. However some had an internal queques and submitted applications on behalf of their clients one after another almost automatically when the system was opened. That may describe the frequency how some companies may have managed to register more domain names than others.
Kind Regards
The EURid Team
Here' a copy of my letter that I sent to EURID,
and their response: (FOLLOWING COMMENT)
7/06/06
European Registry of Internet Domain Names
Belgium
Dear Sir or Madam
I have to say that I firmly believe that there is something underhand going on with the Release of Domain names today. I had a list of 13 domain names that I was going to try for, hoping that maybe, I may get one. I was on the system at 10am, your time, and I tried to book these from before 11am your time – using one Irish account, and in frustration also 1&1internet UK – which I have an account. Neither site was able to say that any of the domains were available – so they would not even process a sale.
Of the 13 I had on my list 9, Yes 9 were successfully obtained by one company – Ovidio Limited, These names were:
FITNESSFIRST.EU
BUSINESSMEDIA.EU
HOLIDAYWORLD.EU
TRAVELONLINE.EU
ASIANS.EU
AUS.EU
SURFERSPARAD ISE.EU
SIX-PACK.EU
6PACK.EU
THE 4 REMAINNG SITES WERE TO DIFFERENT COMPANIES/INDIVIDUALS
TAXBACK.EU
PUREBUSINESS.EU
FO ODNETWORK.EU
MYCAREER.EU
I have a 1 MEG/1 MEG commercial internet connection, and could not even process a full application for one of the sites for over 30 minutes, - how could one company namely OVIDIO Ltd, successful process all of the above 9 sites (and probably more – that are not on my list) when I could not even process one – I’m sure there were thousands of applicants. How could they possibly obtain most of the best sites – if all things were equal ?
Here’s hoping to not getting a lame response.
Yours sincerely
Gordon Mc Cormack
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and their response: (FOLLOWING COMMENT)
7/06/06
European Registry of Internet Domain Names
Belgium
Dear Sir or Madam
I have to say that I firmly believe that there is something underhand going on with the Release of Domain names today. I had a list of 13 domain names that I was going to try for, hoping that maybe, I may get one. I was on the system at 10am, your time, and I tried to book these from before 11am your time – using one Irish account, and in frustration also 1&1internet UK – which I have an account. Neither site was able to say that any of the domains were available – so they would not even process a sale.
Of the 13 I had on my list 9, Yes 9 were successfully obtained by one company – Ovidio Limited, These names were:
FITNESSFIRST.EU
BUSINESSMEDIA.EU
HOLIDAYWORLD.EU
TRAVELONLINE.EU
ASIANS.EU
AUS.EU
SURFERSPARAD ISE.EU
SIX-PACK.EU
6PACK.EU
THE 4 REMAINNG SITES WERE TO DIFFERENT COMPANIES/INDIVIDUALS
TAXBACK.EU
PUREBUSINESS.EU
FO ODNETWORK.EU
MYCAREER.EU
I have a 1 MEG/1 MEG commercial internet connection, and could not even process a full application for one of the sites for over 30 minutes, - how could one company namely OVIDIO Ltd, successful process all of the above 9 sites (and probably more – that are not on my list) when I could not even process one – I’m sure there were thousands of applicants. How could they possibly obtain most of the best sites – if all things were equal ?
Here’s hoping to not getting a lame response.
Yours sincerely
Gordon Mc Cormack
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Hello mr. Parsons,
I appreciate the concern about the eu issue but now I am a bit confused about the 7th june released eu domains.
80% of the domains (for example cow.eu / dora.eu / sociology.eu) we tried to get, are taken by Ovidio Limited [www.ovidiolimited.com] all with the New York registrars, in the first seconds.
Maybe I am wrong but why is www.ovidiolimited.com a by GoDaddy registered domain? Is Ovidio Limited in any way related to GoDaddy?
Kind regards,
Martijn tH
I appreciate the concern about the eu issue but now I am a bit confused about the 7th june released eu domains.
80% of the domains (for example cow.eu / dora.eu / sociology.eu) we tried to get, are taken by Ovidio Limited [www.ovidiolimited.com] all with the New York registrars, in the first seconds.
Maybe I am wrong but why is www.ovidiolimited.com a by GoDaddy registered domain? Is Ovidio Limited in any way related to GoDaddy?
Kind regards,
Martijn tH
I backordered a domain name with Godaddy a couple of weeks ago: e-businessconsultancy.com and guess what.. the same spam-m0f0s managed to grab it before i could. Having already registered the co.uk i am not exactly amused.
Thanks for this great post. You've got some really good info in your blog.
Tom Goodman
http://www.Registeredagentprogram.com
Tom Goodman
http://www.Registeredagentprogram.com
I was a bit fed up like everyone else not to get at least 1 of the 25 eu domains I tried to obtain during landrush.
After reading this blog I decided to try and get a response from the EURid myself. I was specifically interested in what they had to say about what are obviously bogus registrara actually appearing on their "accredired2 list.
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> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> I am interested in a domain name that I think is still being contested
> at the moment and which may be released in the 2nd landrush on 7th June.
>
> After having read several articles which seem to cast doubt over the
> legitimacy of many of the claims made during the sunrise and 1st
> landrush periods, by bogus registrars making illegitimate claims I
> decided to have a look at your published list of 'accredited' registrars.
>
> One compnay based in Austria, 'Elsbethen', it seems has 30 separate
> listings as an 'accredited' registrar on your website. All their
> 'separate' websites all route the user to this one
> http://www.realtime.at
>
> On this website, eg. at http://www.realtime.at/landrush2-en/, you can
> read about how this company will attempt to register a domain for you
> if you are the higgest bidder in their auction for domains that receive more than 1 request.
>
> "The minimum offer per catch order is EUR 100 net (EUR 120 incl. VAT).
> Only bids in stages of EUR 100 net are possible."
>
>
> 1. It appears that this company will have 30 times more chance of
> registering a domain while they stand in line, compared to a company
> only represented once in your queuing system. This cannot be correct can it, please reassure me?
>
> 2. On your website page listing 'accredited' registrars you issue a
> warning to users -"Beware of .eu pre-registration sites from
> non-accredited registrars and of registrars "pooling" their
> pre-registrations with others to auction to the highest bidder those names where multiple applications are received."
>
> It appears to me that this company is operating outside your own rules here.
>
>
> Please advise.
>
> Jon Jackson
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Their response:
Dear Sir,
Thank you very much for your email. Our legal department will have a look at this issue.
However, please be aware of the fact that the mentioned company is not an accredited registrar and EURid has no contractual relations with said company.
Kind regards,
the EURid team
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Appar ently I am to be aware that a company listed on their own online list of accredited registrars is not actually accredited!!
Confused? I am!
After reading this blog I decided to try and get a response from the EURid myself. I was specifically interested in what they had to say about what are obviously bogus registrara actually appearing on their "accredired2 list.
———————————————————————————- —————
> Dear Sir/Madam
>
> I am interested in a domain name that I think is still being contested
> at the moment and which may be released in the 2nd landrush on 7th June.
>
> After having read several articles which seem to cast doubt over the
> legitimacy of many of the claims made during the sunrise and 1st
> landrush periods, by bogus registrars making illegitimate claims I
> decided to have a look at your published list of 'accredited' registrars.
>
> One compnay based in Austria, 'Elsbethen', it seems has 30 separate
> listings as an 'accredited' registrar on your website. All their
> 'separate' websites all route the user to this one
> http://www.realtime.at
>
> On this website, eg. at http://www.realtime.at/landrush2-en/, you can
> read about how this company will attempt to register a domain for you
> if you are the higgest bidder in their auction for domains that receive more than 1 request.
>
> "The minimum offer per catch order is EUR 100 net (EUR 120 incl. VAT).
> Only bids in stages of EUR 100 net are possible."
>
>
> 1. It appears that this company will have 30 times more chance of
> registering a domain while they stand in line, compared to a company
> only represented once in your queuing system. This cannot be correct can it, please reassure me?
>
> 2. On your website page listing 'accredited' registrars you issue a
> warning to users -"Beware of .eu pre-registration sites from
> non-accredited registrars and of registrars "pooling" their
> pre-registrations with others to auction to the highest bidder those names where multiple applications are received."
>
> It appears to me that this company is operating outside your own rules here.
>
>
> Please advise.
>
> Jon Jackson
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Their response:
Dear Sir,
Thank you very much for your email. Our legal department will have a look at this issue.
However, please be aware of the fact that the mentioned company is not an accredited registrar and EURid has no contractual relations with said company.
Kind regards,
the EURid team
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Appar ently I am to be aware that a company listed on their own online list of accredited registrars is not actually accredited!!
Confused? I am!
I can only support the concern with respect to Traffic Web Holding BV
they have snatched some other domains, even there have been trade mark rights since almost a decade. Can someone help with a legal representation in order to go to the ADR court?
Many thanks
Your CM
they have snatched some other domains, even there have been trade mark rights since almost a decade. Can someone help with a legal representation in order to go to the ADR court?
Many thanks
Your CM
Back in August 2003, I pre-registered the domain names swingers.eu and dirtydavid.eu with a company called registereu.com which was "registered" to accept pre registrations for the .eu names.
I paid the fee of 40 UK pounds per domain.
The day after the release of the domain names the company website (registereu.com) was a "monetization" site. No means of contact - no phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and emails sent to the address from which the domains were "pre-ordered" are bounced back, and the control panel for managing domains has gone.
The domain names were taken by others, dirtydavid.eu is
now a monetization site with a price on its head. A company called SEDO (who claim to be in partnership with google) now want me to pay them 49$ to begin negotiations to buy the name, then want further sums (minimum 50$) to register the name if they are successfull.
I have decided to let the names go, its not worth the hassles. I am sure that the whole .eu name will quickly be seen as worthless by end users, as they are looking for websites not market places.
I am very glad I found go-daddy, despite not getting any of the .eu names I tried to buy for my customers through yourselves.
David
I paid the fee of 40 UK pounds per domain.
The day after the release of the domain names the company website (registereu.com) was a "monetization" site. No means of contact - no phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and emails sent to the address from which the domains were "pre-ordered" are bounced back, and the control panel for managing domains has gone.
The domain names were taken by others, dirtydavid.eu is
now a monetization site with a price on its head. A company called SEDO (who claim to be in partnership with google) now want me to pay them 49$ to begin negotiations to buy the name, then want further sums (minimum 50$) to register the name if they are successfull.
I have decided to let the names go, its not worth the hassles. I am sure that the whole .eu name will quickly be seen as worthless by end users, as they are looking for websites not market places.
I am very glad I found go-daddy, despite not getting any of the .eu names I tried to buy for my customers through yourselves.
David
What does success rate mean anyway?
If I try to register sfsaffdgdsgf.eu, my success rate is 100%, but if I try to register sex.eu it's 0%!
If I try to register sfsaffdgdsgf.eu, my success rate is 100%, but if I try to register sex.eu it's 0%!
I strongly doubt the correct handling of .eu registrations.
Being in a start-up phase I checked the availability of my company name´s .eu address a couple of times. I was not able to register before sometime end of March.
I then got an e-mail from my provider telling me that someone had registered the same address earlier. Through www.whois.eu I checked the registrar. And hey, it was the company I used to check availability of the address with.
To add to the fun: the address is registered on behalf of a company that can not be traced through Google, that has an invalid phone number, an invalid e-mail address and an unknown web address. (The .eu version of that web address is still available (!))
I have no idea what to do now. The registrar´s web site has disappeared (personalnames.com).
Best regards,
Belfi
One of the things that EUrid managed to evade so far is the scale of the damage to .eu:
700 bogus registrars.
Each registrar has to prepay 10000 Euros.
Each new .eu registration costs 10 Euros.
Each registrar can register 1000 domains with the prepayment.
700 * 1000 = 700,000 .eu squatted/speculative domains.
700,000 domains out of approximately 1.6 million.
That's over 43% of .eu domains.
So these guys, if they've registered the maximum number of domains, are potentially squatting 700000 .eu domain names. And the 700 bogus registrars figure is a conservative estimate.
700 bogus registrars.
Each registrar has to prepay 10000 Euros.
Each new .eu registration costs 10 Euros.
Each registrar can register 1000 domains with the prepayment.
700 * 1000 = 700,000 .eu squatted/speculative domains.
700,000 domains out of approximately 1.6 million.
That's over 43% of .eu domains.
So these guys, if they've registered the maximum number of domains, are potentially squatting 700000 .eu domain names. And the 700 bogus registrars figure is a conservative estimate.
Well, Bob its obvious your ahead of the regitry of .eu itself. As mentioned above do not use your time on thoose sceptics.
I myself can only hope and wait that the phantoms get their names lost BEFORE the poor paying EU Company has to pay for it 10$ x 1000.
All in all i will just add that your doing a great job as the CEO of GoDaddy, my clients like your service.
O btw, cant wait to listen to that radio interview with NEVERDIE (I host/run his site)
I myself can only hope and wait that the phantoms get their names lost BEFORE the poor paying EU Company has to pay for it 10$ x 1000.
All in all i will just add that your doing a great job as the CEO of GoDaddy, my clients like your service.
O btw, cant wait to listen to that radio interview with NEVERDIE (I host/run his site
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