74,000 .EU Domains Suspended

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Register.

[snip]

Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering
companies sued by the company in charge of the European Union's
top-level domain.

Non-profit organisation EURid has taken legal action after a review of
the system for .eu domains (which went live in April) revealed a small
number of companies had registered several hundred phantom companies in
order to manipulate the system.

A EURid spokesman told The Register that every one of the 400
registrars had been sued for breaching its contract with the company
because they were "warehousing" domains - storing them in order to sell
them on.

[snip]

More:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/24/eu_domains_suspended/

- ferg


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