EurID puts all Ovidio .eu domains ON HOLD or QUARANTAINE
After the recent suspention of 74,000 domains EurID has recently changed the status of a certain number of registered .eu domain names. The status of about 74.000 .eu domain names has been changed from “active†to “ON HOLD†or “QUARANTAINE”.
As a consequence of this action from EurID, the number of active .eu domain names has dropped below the 2 million figure (figure that was reached earlier on this month). According to the EurID stats there are now 1.980.059 registered .eu domains.
It appears that EurID might be investigating the .eu domain name registrations of some Chyprus based companies (Ovidio Limited, Fausto Ltd and Gabino Ltd). It seems to be that they registered 74.000 valuable .eu domain names in “landrush 2″.
These companies, recently established in Cyprus, used the service of approximately 400 registrars, which, in turn, were all established just couple of weeks before the beginning of the ‘landrush’ period. Fortuitous, all registrars shared the same postal address in Cyprus.
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Seems as if EURID lost their lawsuit. I heard that a judge in Brussels ordered all 74000 domains to be unlocked or EURid would face a damage of 25,000 euros per domain per hour.
Comment by JT — October 4, 2006 @ 6:55 pm