74,000 .eu Domains By Three Companies Suspended

Over 74,000 .eu domains have been suspended and 400 registering companies sued by EURid, the non-profit organisation in charge of the European Union’s top-level domain.

EURid has taken legal action after a review of the system for .eu domains (which went live in April) revealed that only three 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.

All the 74,000 domains registered by the 400 registrars were now in the hands of just three companies - Ovidio Ltd, Fausto Ltd and Gabino Ltd, he explained. “We are convinced the registrars are just a front, and can be looked on as one and the same.”

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This is an extreme case of gaming the domain registration system but gaming the dysfunctional domain registration system has been going on for years.