New .eu registrations - the comical applications category

Some squatters just don't learn

[jmccormac]

I've been looking at the sunrise applications for a few well known brands and trademarks on the Eurid site. There seems to be a few applications for well known trademarks such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Some of these applications are rather hard to take seriously.

Regards...jmcc

[Webwork]

Add that to the list of firms/individuals submitting sunrise claims for popular high PPC words like loans, poker, etc. Often the same firm/individual claiming trademark rights in multiple words.

I say auction them off to the highest bidder where there are multiple claims to the same generic word. At least that way all thieves have to pay in full to play.

Even better: Let the central registry keep the generic, high PPC value words and put up PPC landers on the domains. That way the registry can pay its operating costs from the revenue and lower the cost for the remaining registrations.

Seems like a fair resolution to an ugly situation to me.

[jmccormac]

Yes but if the trademarks do not exist then the registrations must fail. There are indications of clearly speculative attempts at registrations for well known and well protected trademarks.

I saw a few very dodgy .info registrations, one of which was a web hosting one with a claimed trademark of 1984 - a trademark registration that was extraordinarily prescient considering that the web as such did not really exist until the early 1990s.

There should be a penalty for fraudulent applications in that if one demonstrably fraudulent application is submitted, then all registrations by the same applicant should immediately be deleted. It is the kind of brute force logic that works well on databases.

Regards...jmcc