Another land rush will start June 7 at the Brussels- based regist...
Another land rush will start June 7 at the Brussels- based registry for .eu domain names, this one to allow registration of names sought during .eu sunrise periods but not allocated. These number 50,000 names, Eurid spokesman Patrik Linden…
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said. After talks with registrars, Eurid decided to list the names, despite fear of aiding cybersquatters. Starting today (Wed.), Eurid will publish domains’ status in the Whois, permitting onlookers to check a name’s availability. By April 30, U.S. registrars registered nearly 180,000 .eu domains, 2nd only to German registrars, who registered around 507,000. By Tues., Eurid had registered 1.8 million domain names. A week after the April 7 rush, .eu had overtaken .biz and made it to 9th on the list of prevalent TLD zones after .com, .de, .net, .uk, .org, .info and .nl. Eurid is studying abusive registration, Linden said. Between 1,000 and 10,000 names were registered to persons or firms not eligible for the eu-domains -- mainly because they don’t reside in the EU.