Comments on: Registrar on .eu domain hoarding: Nothing we can do

There's no stopping top-level domain stockpiling, says Eurid, over which EU "does not have any supervisory role."

[Hardrada]

Plans backfiring?

It seems that Eurid, in its greedy haste to secure 10,000 euro deposits from "registrars" in the initial opening of the .eu domain, may have shot themselves in the foot. If companies like Really Useful Domains attempts to sell their 3 letter domains for outrageous amounts of money, then it's safe to assume that they won't sell them at all. It's probably the same story with the other warehousing registrars that attempted the same trick. Thus, the .eu domain doesn't get widely used and accepted as a recognized TLD, and Eurid ultimately loses. The .com domain will remain as the most recognized TLD, and the whole opportunity of introducing a new .eu TLD to break the US-owned .com monopoly is blown.

[jabbotts]

parasitic practices

"Warehousing" or whatever term you take for domain squating is a technological parasite invented by unethical business.

There is no justification for the practice that does not initially stem from the practice itself and none of them are exceptable.

What happened to the early days of the internet when companies only registered domains they intended to use and domain squaters didn't win legal cases for domains they'd purposfully registered close to legitimate domains for blackmail purposes.

If you register domains you don't intend to use for valid server addressing, your no better than the other parasites producing invasive advertising, mal-ware, spam and similar network enabled crimes.

[AgeOfPenguins_com]

As lovable as vultures

These "warehousers" or "squatters" as I prefer to call them, deserve to be on the street, in the lowest form of poverty, based on what they are contributing to the world.

How can ANYONE say they are even providing a service? They just "get to a domain first", then resell it at a huge profit. They're not actually DOING ANYTHING for the end-user except releasing the domain that they grabbed for no reason in the first place!

They make lawyers look useful!

Matthew

[SimonWilkins]

The whole thing is a total scam, anyone in the world can buy an EU domain all they have to do is register some fake business name in a european country and EURID dont care, i have seen domains registered by people living in south america then reported them, 2 months later they register a business in some tiny european country and they get away with it, even though at the time they were not entitled to buy the domains in ther first place. The whole this is a joke at our expense.