The Great .EU fraud begins...

[mole]

Five years ago, .INFO was subject to fraud speculation and never really recovered till this day. History repeats itself, perhaps this time in a more advanced, calculated way;

Ron Jackson, editor of Domain Name Journal, said: "Professional speculators have filed thousands of false trademarks on names like bank and casino. The prices on those could be phenomenal. This has happened every time this has been rolled out. It happened on .info and it still hasn't been corrected."

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/52253.html

To check whois of fraudsters applying using contrived legal loopholes, you can use http://www.whois.eu

 

[wot]

Five years ago, .INFO was subject to fraud speculation and never really recovered till this day. History repeats itself, perhaps this time in a more advanced, calculated way;



http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/52253.html

To check whois of fraudsters applying using contrived legal loopholes, you can use http://www.whois.eu

Eurids master plan is to use Price Waterhouse to determine legality of claims and that will be assesed by the first trade mark, it does not appear that there will be any checks on the validity of the trademarks - they will just get rubber stamped :td:

 

[MadAboutDomains]

*** gets some trademarks with '&' inbetween ***

:hehe: Only Joking.

People are selfish, fact.

 

[mole]

So these TM's are based on the .eu extension?

Absolutely.

 

[dotNAMES]

Funny to see that Bernd Schnell (which sound like a Pseudonym of Bob Fast :D) has Trademarks on Sex.eu, hotel.eu and travel.eu....
Of course, the Zillertal address in Wuppertal (Germany) sounds really fishy for such a big organisation....

 

[Binfus]

If anyone would like to use EuFraud.info (just regged) to chronicle details of this great fraud, please feel free and let me know.

 

[wot]

Just did a check on the 213 .eu names I had pre regged via DD24, it would appear that around 85% them have already had sunrise trademark applications and none of the names are the top searched.

I went that route expecting that sex, travel etc would bring out the crooks and nothing would be done about it- seems like it really is going to be one major scam about to happen with Eurid saying how successful they have been overseeing the launch - yeah right. :td:

 

[mole]

whois.eu is currently listing all the applicants for a specific name, it seems that some people submitted a couple of times each for a name.

It is clear that speculators are doing the top keywords in by using the old TFT (Trademark-From-Timbuktu) strategy all over again.

Any fool could see this, and I'm sure EURID has. They should turn this into a random draw for each name while they still can.

I think what they are trying to do now is to try to rake in the application money first.

 

[tetrapak]

Imo, there would be no need at all for the sunrise period. Real trademarks will get their domains whatever happens.

 

[Sir Regalot]

One company (or individual using this name), Traffic Web Holdings BV appears frequently in searches. For example, they have the only two applications for "television.eu". Their email address tells you something about them: [email protected].

 

[IAmAllanShore]

http://www.digipoint.be/iw_dns_eu.aspx
Gives more info, although US will need babelfish to translate.
It is unfortunate, to say the least, that a hairbrained scheme dreamt up by ever newbie tween to this board seems to have, in part, worked thus far...
-Allan

 

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http://www.digipoint.be/iw_dns_eu.aspx
Gives more info, although US will need babelfish to translate.
It is unfortunate, to say the least, that a hairbrained scheme dreamt up by ever newbie tween to this board seems to have, in part, worked thus far...
-Allan

what does 'ever newbie tween' mean?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

what does 'ever newbie tween' mean?

Left off the "y" , that should be "every newbie tween", in reference to every teenage new user that suggests creating fake TM's in order to take (By reverse hijacking) registered domain names or to sneak into the sunrise period of any new extension.

-Allan