possible .eu squatters

Ph3n0m

www.blacknightsolutions.eu - excuse me, but WTF???

thats a bit of a suprise

So I tried another domain

http://www.register365.eu/ - again WTF

jmcc

Ph3n0m wrote:

www.blacknightsolutions.eu - excuse me, but WTF???

thats a bit of a suprise

So I tried another domain

http://www.register365.eu/ - again WTF

I've been working on rebuilding the .eu zone over the last few weeks. It is like trying to rebuild a phone directory without knowing what numbers or names are on it. So far, I've 1.25 Million .eu domains mapped out of 1.77 M or so. And the squatting is a lot worse than those two examples above.

Regards...jmcc

dahamsta

That looks like very bad form. I hope it's customers of those companies that registered the domain names and not the companies themselves.

Rollo Tamasi

it would seem more likely that it is the actuall companies in my opinion since both are rivals to blacknight & hosting365, it would seem to be too much of a coincidence otherwise

mneylon

Ken Shabby wrote:

I hope it's customers of those companies that registered the domain names and not the companies themselves.

You can check the details on http://www.whois.eu

AngryAnderson

So basically .eu domains are a red herring that have been squatted to death and are virtually useless. I wouldn't be too worried about it if I were Steve McCarron or that guy with the girls name who runs Blacknight. I'm just sorry I registered a .eu for my company thinking it would matter.

jmcc

AngryAnderson wrote:

So basically .eu domains are a red herring that have been squatted to death and are virtually useless. I wouldn't be too worried about it if I were Steve McCarron or that guy with the girls name who runs Blacknight. I'm just sorry I registered a .eu for my company thinking it would matter.

It has a high level of squatting/speculative registrations. But the core business registrations have not filtered into the zone because of the fact that only 1000 Sunrise domain applications are validated each day. So many Irish businesses may not see their .eu go live until around Christmas. But even so there are new .eu websites.

As a gTLD, .eu will take about five years to become established. It is a secondary domain and for credibility, .com and .ie and other ccTLDs would be more important until .eu is established.

Regards...jmcc

dahamsta

AngryAnderson wrote:

that guy with the girls name who runs Blacknight

:rolleyes: What age are you, ten?

AngryAnderson

Ken Shabby wrote:

:rolleyes: What age are you, ten?

Yes. Is that okay with you? Or are you ageist? AGEIST!

GoneShootin

Ph3n0m wrote:

http://www.register365.eu/ - again WTF

Love his (unlimitedhost.ie) site - I've got the exact same FREE web-template sitting on this PC

mneylon

GoneShootin wrote:

Love his (unlimitedhost.ie) site - I've got the exact same FREE web-template sitting on this PC

They supposedly have a designer... or at least that's what the owner said when I rang him about a year ago regarding copyright breach.

I love the text on the site:
Unlimited Host is now one of the largest hosting providers in Ireland.

In which reality?

With data centres based in Dublin, London and Boston

Huh?

dahamsta

If they have data centers in Dublin, London and Boston, I have data centers in Houston, New York, Dublin, and two in Cork! Yay me!

Ph3n0m

Then that makes me a data centre, plus I also downloaded the internet and stored it on a floppy disk

GoneShootin

blacknight wrote:

copyright breach.

http://www.design-service-pro.com/web_template_free.html

Please do not remove the link to Design-Service-Pro.com from your html page!

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6461/image32ii.gif

He wasnt even arsed to change the logo in the slightest bit. For shame...

DOLEMAN

If .eu domains weren't so worthless, the squatting would bother me more.

GoneShootin

Hi Michael,

Thank you for the info. We will follow up on this case.

Best regards,

Elena
support@design-service-pro.com
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:26 AM
To: support@design-service-pro.com
Subject: Copyright Breach: http://www.unlimitedhost.ie/

Hi there,

By chance I came across the following website, which in my opinion is in
breach of your own free web template T&C.

http://www.unlimitedhost.ie/

I downloaded the exact same template for your site well over a year ago, and
was amazed to see this "uncanny resemblence". Unfortunately this person has
removed any links to design-service-pro.com.

The conversation about this site and his template started here:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=51401458 (post 10 onwards)

If you do decide to pursue this I hope you give the company a hard slap on
the wrist.


Regards


Michael

Ya, I'm a bad bastard...