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EURid Sues 400 Registrars And Puts 74K doms On Hold

jmcc · 2006-07-24 22:53:11

EURid has put 74K .eu domains on hold and has announced that it has taken legal action against 400 phantom or bogus registrars for breach of contract. The domains were related to Ovidio Limited, Fausto Limited and Gabino Limited. They consisted primarily of generic phrases and keywords and Ovidio was cyberwarehousing these…

24-07-2006 10:53pm

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EURid has put 74K .eu domains on hold and has announced that it has taken legal action against 400 phantom or bogus registrars for breach of contract. The domains were related to Ovidio Limited, Fausto Limited and Gabino Limited. They consisted primarily of generic phrases and keywords and Ovidio was cyberwarehousing these domains with the intention to sell them later.

More details:
http://blog.whoisireland.com

It is not known yet if EURid will take action against the hundreds of other phantom registrars. The court cases will take place in October and EURid wishes to make the domains available to register, perhaps late this year.

Regards...jmcc

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#2 25-07-2006 1:10am

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Nice to see how my other site got a brief mention in one of the comments.

I think I'm ok...I think.

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#3 25-07-2006 1:31am

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Sparky-s wrote:

Nice to see how my other site got a brief mention in one of the comments.

I think I'm ok...I think.

In the stats comment where the Ovidio Ltd/Fausto Ltd and Tempus .eu counts and com/net/org/biz/info counts were listed?

Regards...jmcc

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#4 25-07-2006 8:50pm

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No. I read more down the page and comments.

edit:

Here- http://blog.whoisireland.com/index.php?p=100#comments

Small mention in comment #2
Infact googling my site brings up that comment also.

Sorry to go OT.

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#5 25-07-2006 8:55pm

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#6 25-07-2006 8:58pm

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x w62CE t4<D@C wrote:

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Eh??

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#7 25-07-2006 9:02pm

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Sparky-s wrote:

Eh??

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054966802

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#8 26-07-2006 7:52am

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Sparky-s wrote:

No. I read more down the page and comments.

edit:

Here- http://blog.whoisireland.com/index.php?p=100#comments

Small mention in comment #2
Infact googling my site brings up that comment also.

Sorry to go OT.

Ah - I was getting confused there. Sometimes it is hard to keep all those millions of domains in my head.

Still though - that EURid decision is 4 Million Euros worth of trouble for these bogus registrars. That's if EURid revokes the contract and keeps the money. But there are hundreds more bogus registrars and squatters to be dealt with yet.

Regards...jmcc

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