EURid Reactivates 74000 ON-HOLD Ovidio Limited Domains

[jmccormac]

EURid changed the status of the 74K+ Ovidio syndicate domains from ON-HOLD to REGISTERED. These domains had been put on hold in July by EURid. The domains were registered by three Cypriot front companies Ovidio Limited, Fausto Limited and Gabino Limited. EURid had claimed that it would like to make the domains available again for reregistration. However it seems that the management of EURid has totally destroyed the credibility of .eu ccTLD now by reactivating the domains. As of this time, the management of EURid has not made any statement.

Regards...jmcc

[jmccormac]

The reactivation seems to be part of the court action and may be temporary pending the outcome. There may still be hope for the future of .eu yet. :)

Regards...jmcc

[Leosghost]

Maybe the current members of EURids board are about to retire and are just making sure that their possibly previously agreed parachutes aren't going to have the strings cut from Cyprus due to non compliance with whatever was the deal agreed away from the light of day ..

Plus Cyprus is a nice place to retire to ..especially if one has gratefull corporate lawyer friends in high places there ..

lot of Chinese goods that should normally have been subject to "quota" ..in order to be brought into Europe ..used to ( and doubltess will be again ..shoes etc )..resourced ( ie their paperwork and packaging changed and their country of origin remade as "Lebanon" ..where they dont need to have "quota" and come in with much less scritiny ) That went on ( still is going on ) for years ..and the organisers and their highly placed friends in the civil services of certain European countries and at Bruxelles do very nicely out of the corruption ..as do some major retailers in Europe ..

The fact that it appears that domain names are the latest things to have their real ownership and origin or destination changed in the sometimes murky waters of the mediteranean around Cyprus surprises few ..

Judges who look too closely will no doubt be removed ..and life will go on ..

or there will simply be a declaration of a "non lieu" ..and one will be told to "circuler" .."there is nothing to see" ..said with slight menace in the smile ..

just off to feed my invisible cows some fruit and veg ..I keep them in an apartement in the 16 ieme ..they are not subject to VAT if they stay on the first floor ..

[gpmgroup]

The European Commission welcomed US government moves to make [ICANN] the company that manages Internet domain names independent by 2009, but said it would monitor the process carefully, a Reuters report said.

Kind of ironic really

[jmccormac]

Apparenly a Belgian court forced EURid to reactivate the domains or face a 25000 Euro per hour per domain fine for each domain if it did not comply. EURid is appealing this decision.

Regards...jmcc

[OptiRex]

Apparenly a Belgian court forced EURid

Hahaha...not the European court?

So now everyone has to kowtow to a national court because, presumably, the E.U. resides in Brussels?

Could you imagine Eurid taking ANY notice if a British or Irish court insisted on this? Nothing would happen whatsoever.

What would happen if they moved the Eurid offices to Strasbourg?

What a farce and it all could have been avoided!

[jmccormac]

Hahaha...not the European court?

The Belgian court has priority as EURid is a Belgian company.

Could you imagine Eurid taking ANY notice if a British or Irish court insisted on this? Nothing would happen whatsoever.

If EURid had been based in Ireland, we'd have sent in the Criminal Assets Bureau long ago. (It is the equivalent of the IRS/Customs/FBI combined.)

I'd really like to find the names of the people and consultancies who advised the European Commission and assess each one's expertise of the domain business and their contribution to the decision to award the contract for running .eu to such a bunch of (expletive deleted ;) ) who had no experience of running a what really is a gTLD. I'd also like to see a full, public, explanation of why the contract was awarded to EURid and the criteria that the EC used.

Hopefully this court order is just the equivalent of an interlocutary injunction. EURid posted this on its website:
[eurid.eu...]

Though the best way for this farce to have been avoided would have been to award the contract to a competent venture with a real management team. The whole .eu thing just stinks as industry and public confidence in the ccTLD has been almost completely destroyed by how badly EURid have run things.

Regards...jmcc

[jmccormac]

It now appears that this court order came from a case that the Ovidio syndicate registrars and registrants took against EURid. This just keeps getting stranger and stranger.

Regards...jmcc

[OptiRex]

The Belgian court has priority as EURid is a Belgian company.

Huh?

This runs contrary to everything we have been informed for years that the European Court can overrule ANY E.U. country's national court decisions etc even if the citizens of that country do not even want the E.U. variety or flavour.

I suppose at the moment the issue was taken up in Belgian however I would have thought that if the European Court were to become involved then the big guns from Brussels would have to be wheeled out.

Unless of course, that, as usual, certain countries seem to be able to swing any verdict their own way...just like the cash:-)

[encyclo]

the European Court can overrule ANY E.U. country's national court decisions

Sure, in the same way that the US Supreme Court can override lower courts. Just that you've got to get your case up to that level to start with. :) I believe you can't go to the European court until you've exhausted all possible avenues at the member-state level.

[John Carpenter]

The Belgian court has priority

No, it doesn't. It's just at the lowest level.