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In short, the EURid allowed bogus and phantom registrars to game the system; many registrars took payment for .eu names they were unable to secure and are now refusing to refund the payment (they probably shouldn’t have charged the person until the domain was successfully processed anyway!); the EURid system collapsed under the weight of requests (how was this not predicted and extra hosting infrastrucutre leased for the first month?); and TONS of intellectual property, business names and trademarks have been stolen.

What’s inexcusable is that .EU represents the largest economy in the world, and with all the TLD’s and ccTLD’s introduced in the past few years should have had ample information on how to correctly define the process and provision adequate hardware.

I still don’t believe that .EU will take off, despite a lot of commentary that .EU will rival .COM, and that most registrations are for brand protection rather than new business. As I said in a previous post - what market does .EU service? Not Europe anyway - with all the various languages to cater for, ccTLD’s are far more appropriate; and certainly not the intercontinental / global market - which is serviced effectively by .COM.

By way of example … when was the last time you visited a .US site? And what’s the difference in .US and .EU?

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