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The [[ICANN Board]] represented by its President and CEO [[Paul Twomey]] entered a Registry with [[EURid]] through its Managing Director [[Marc Van Wesemael]] to complete the delegation process of the .eu ccTLD in 2005. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/cctlds/eu/eu-icann-ra-23jun05.pdf .eu ccTLD Registry Agreement]</ref>
The [[ICANN Board]] represented by its President and CEO [[Paul Twomey]] entered a Registry with [[EURid]] through its Managing Director [[Marc Van Wesemael]] to complete the delegation process of the .eu ccTLD in 2005. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/cctlds/eu/eu-icann-ra-23jun05.pdf .eu ccTLD Registry Agreement]</ref>
==The Sunrise Period==
==Sunrise Period==
EURid implemented a four months Sunrise Period for the .eu ccTLD which started December 7, 2005 until April 2006. During the Sunrise Period, the registry received more than 245,000 registrations.<ref>[http://www.eurid.eu/en/about/facts-figures/sunrise Sunrise Period]</ref>
EURid implemented a four months Sunrise Period for the .eu ccTLD on a first come, first serve basis. It started on December 7, 2005 until April 2006. During the Sunrise Period, the registry received more than 245,000 registrations.<ref>[http://www.eurid.eu/en/about/facts-figures/sunrise Sunrise Period]</ref>
==Landrush Period==
On April 7, 2006, EURid open the .eu ccTLD for public registration known as the Landrush Period. [[Bob Parsons]]], Founder and CEO of [[Go Daddy]] openly criticized the Landrush registration process implemented by EUrid and described it as a scam. According to him, some notorious companies found loophole to the process and hijacked the system. Parsons explained that some companies modus operandi was ''''instead of registering their real active registrars, they created hundreds of new phantom registrars with similar addresses and contact information designed to hijack the .eu landrush giving the notorious companies greater opportunities to register domain names.<ref>
[http://www.bobparsons.me/113/eu-landrush-fiasco-bumbling-registry-allows-europe-own-domain-name-highjacked.html The .EU Landrush Fiasco]</ref>
By June of 2006 the .eu registrations reached around 3 million.
==References==
==References==