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==Landrush Period==
==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>
On April 7, 2006, EURid open the .eu ccTLD for public registration known as the Landrush Period.According to EUrid there was a strong demand for .eu domain names and describe the .eu ccTLD as a useful to the internet's top level domain names. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4895206.stm Fast Start for European Net Names]</ref> By June of 2006 the .eu registrations reached around 3 million.
[[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>
[http://www.bobparsons.me/113/eu-landrush-fiasco-bumbling-registry-allows-europe-own-domain-name-highjacked.html The .EU Landrush Fiasco]</ref>
EURid Spokesman Patrick Linden denied Parsons allegations and explained that EURid validated the registrars that were accredited to sell .eu domain names.<ref>[http://www.bobparsons.me/115/eurid-denies-eu-landrush-abuse-guys-could-not-spin-top.html EU Denies .eu Landrush Abuse]</ref>
One month after EURid's denied Parson's allegations of abuse on the .eu ccTLD Landrush process, the organization discovered that three companies from UK namely Ovidio Ltd, Fausto Ltd and Gabino Ltd used syndicated registrars as front to acquire and stockpile thousands of domain names. This activity known as warehousing is not allowed by the EURid and sued the registrars for breach of contract and froze the more than 74,000 domain names that are allegedly stockpiled by syndicated registrars.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5216118.stm Thousands of EU Net Names Frozen]</ref>
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