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Story: UK firms lagging on.eu

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We are a UK company and recently applied for an .eu name to protect our branding during the sunrise period for registered trademarks.

Today I was informed that our application had been rejected.

We provided our registered trademark details as requested.

We also are the registered domain holders of the .com, .co.uk, .tv, .org, .info, .biz and .net of the same domain name.

We are now awaiting the result of emails sent to PWC the validation agent and Eurid as well as our registrars to see if there is a big con going on with .eu registrations - no wonder there is a lack of interest - especially when you find out the costs involved for ADR 1000,s of Euros !!

Regard Gerrard Bridglal

Dear Sirs,

I recently applied for a .eu domain name during the sunrise period and provided the necessary documentation to PWC.

The name applied for was wotson.eu.

Being the registered trademark holder of 'wotson', registered at the UK Patent Office and also the registered domain holder of wotson.com, wotson.co.uk, wotson.net, wotson.info, wotson.biz, wotson.org, and wotson.tv there is absolutely no reason why my application should be rejected and I can't believe this has happened.

There is obviously major flaws with this sunrise registration procedure and I would like to know the reasons promptly before taking it up with the press.

This is the rejection letter I received:-

Dear Network Solutions Customer,

Thank you for pre-registering your .eu domain name request with Network Solutions**.

Unfortunately, we were unable to fulfill your pre-registration request because your application failed the registry's validation process.

As stated on the Network Solutions' pre-registration site, the entire sunrise fee ($99.00 for Registered Community Trademarks) is non-refundable for .eu domain name requests that fail EURid's validation process.

I will provide more details once I receive a reply.

Gerrard Bridglal
Owner
Wotson Publishing
www.wotson.com

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