Parsons on Eurid – part two

Bob Parsons, CEO of Godaddy, has posted again about the .EU sunrise fiasco with an analysis of the “phantom registrars”
It seems that my suspicions about Delaware LLCs were well founded..
So, the question now is will someone do anything about this?
Is it acceptable that london.eu and dublin.eu are ceded to opportunistic cybersquatters?
Will the EU take action or will our politicians ignore the farce?
As John points out, this is unlikely.
Marc van Wesemael, the head of Eurid gave an interesting interview a few months ago. Some quotes:

Notre modèle économique est calculé sur la base d’un million de noms de domaine.

So that’s been dealt with already…

Eurid est une association à but non lucratif.

Really? So the 3 or 4 hundred extra registrars you signed up recently didn’t help your finances?
400 x 10000 euro = a LOT of money
And what are they doing with the money?

Nous devons encore financer de lourds investissements, en serveurs notamment.

Maybe that got overlooked before Friday?
And what about cybersquatting?

Avez-vous déjà remarqué des cas de cyberquatting ?
Tout dépend ce que vous appelez cybersquatting. Si quelqu’un a déposé une marque imitant celle d’une enseigne connue, mais avec une différence orthographique, et que cette demande a été acceptée par les instances compétentes, nous ne pouvons nous opposer à l’enregistrement de son nom de domaine

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The man should go into politics!