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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>
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>
==IDN Implementation==
==IDN & DNNSSEC Implementation==
On December 2009, EURid implemented the Internationalized Domain Name ([[IDN]]) to allow members of the European Union whose languages use non ASCII characters in their alphabets for instance the Swedish Swedish å, the German ü, the Romanian ș and other characters from the Bulgarian and Greek alphabets which uses accents, cedillas and ogoneks.<ref>[http://www.eurid.eu/en/faq#IDN_mean .eu IDN]</ref>
On December 2009, EURid implemented the Internationalized Domain Name ([[IDN]]) to allow members of the European Union whose languages use non ASCII characters in their alphabets for instance the Swedish Swedish å, the German ü, the Romanian ș and other characters from the Bulgarian and Greek alphabets which uses accents, cedillas and ogoneks.<ref>[http://www.eurid.eu/en/faq#IDN_mean .eu IDN]</ref>
On June 2010, during the 38th [[ICANN]] Meeting in Brussels EURid announced its deployment on [[DNNSSEC]] to provide more security to its internet users.<ref>[http://www.internetblog.org.uk/tag/eu/ www.internetblog.org]</ref>
==Growth and Expansion==
Based on Eurid's 2011 first quarter progress report, the organization implemented the Multiyear Registration program on April 7, 2011 aloowing domain name registrants to register a domain name for a maximum of ten years. Currently, there are approximately 3.9 million registered .eu domain names. The growth rate of the .eu ccTLD registration compared to its 2010 figures is 4.2%. According to Eurid, Bulgaria (43%), Estonia (39%) and Romania (22%) displayed a strong annual growth rates including the domain name renewal rate at 78%.<ref>[http://www.eurid.eu/files/Q1_2011.pdf 2011 Q1 Progress Report]</ref> .Eu is considered the 9th largest top level domain name and 5th most popular ccTLD worldwide.<ref>
[http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/447&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en Europa.eu]</ref>
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