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 ………….
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I think its a real joke.
Might be a little miffed the fact that I’m still waiting an application i paid for but the domain was registered, and subsequently now for sale to the highest bidder…
A little foresight on the part of EurID could have solved a lot of headaches…
Ken
You’re not the only one.. Each registrar could make one connection at a time, so the 300 odd US registrars that magically appeared in the last couple of weeks had an unfair advantage.