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Story: Registrars accused of stockpiling 74,000 .eu domains

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Ofcourse, starting a compliant will get you a charge of about EUR 1900 by EurID. It's almost as if they wanted things to go wrong significantly.

I know plenty of companies that made a valid request during SunRise and got the burocrated end of the stick. Only to find out that someone who has no relationship whatsoever with their name got it registrated anyway. Never mind registered trademark name registers and what not.

The overall result? A few privileged companies got to stuck their pockets full. The rest of the world is starting to ignore it. Including the EU names. Why bother typing in an EU name? Chances are you're not going to end up where you would like to end up. You might as well start with a national name first.

The irony is that by stockpiling the bad EU registars have thrown their own glasses in. It's getting to become cheaper to simply make up a new name (or your own name if that's still free) and register that in a few national domains. A simple URL rewrite (standard DNS service nowedays) will point it right back to your already up and running national web site. All you need to do now is to add a few languages (but you needed to do that with an EU name anyway) and voila. Next thing on the future to-do list: cancel the EU registrations in time. And blacklist bad EU registars.

Oh. Next runner up. The registration of EU IDN's. Or International Domain Names. EurID shut the door on that despite plenty of companies (and people) registering an IDN during SunRise. So guess who's going to stockpile EU IDN's in the future? Surely not EU registers again?

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