DRT2006 04 19 .EU TLD Update

.EU Panel by Frederick Schiwek, EuroDNS, VP Int'l Dev Karia Valente, Verisign Matt Serlin, Director, Domain Provisioning MarkMonitor

Presentation by Frederick Schiwek will be online

14 languages Non EU can simply register by creating a UK entity ($150) or in Netherland domain land rush with a sunrise (December 7 2005 - April 7 2006)

No clear trademark policy Large corporations were slow and missed registering their own trademark

60% names are possibly 'speculative'. Some clients have over 65000 names.

Look like the wild free west, people struggling with non EU credit card, fraud issues.

IDN end of 2006, rules about languages not known. Surprising that a EU name space didn't provision for IDN at the beginning.

Transfer rules not yet live.

Trademark in whatever EU country was good enough and could be used as a way to get the name, too bad for trademark owner in other countries which were too slow.

Powerpoint presentation through a video by Bart Lieben (PwC), many application rejection due to misunderstanding of trademark policies. Usual EU complexity: applications can be submitted in 20 languages that the IP experts had to be able to read/validate. Validation process was a moving target (more or less lenient).