EU Aftermarket

No matter who you ask the number of speculative registrations during both sunrise and landrush for .eu was obviously high.
Eurid has stuck its head in the sand and is claiming that the trademark laws were at fault not them.
No matter what went on in the lead up to landrush one thing is sure – the domain aftermarket is booming.
Sedo, which is one of the largest domain brokers, has over 36 thousand EU domains listed. While some of them are not legitimate listings (ie. none of the pending applications has been accepted by Eurid) that is still a high number so short after the landrush.
So are all these registrations likely to stick?
This could be a moot point, as the .es registry was forced to rollback a large number that were snapped up on opening and that was a ccTLD not a regional TLD.
It’s pity that the ADR site doesn’t have an RSS feed ………….