.ie domain squatters

Aoife-FM104

It seems a website called "eubrowser" is trying to register as many word .ie domains as possible. For example, love.ie, sexy.ie, adult.ie, bebo.ie, irishindependent.ie etc. They all redirect to eubrowser.

I thought the IEDR were supposed to stop that kind of carry on?

Ziycon

Thats very strange, the IEDR should'nt allow this, thats the reason they exist!

mneylon

EUBrowser have basically found a loophole in the IEDR rules, which is why the domains were registered.

MartMax

what are the loopholes ? shame.

Dundalk Daily

Id like to know what the loopholes are ?

Ziycon

blacknight wrote:

EUBrowser have basically found a loophole in the IEDR rules, which is why the domains were registered.

Cant the domain be taken back by IEDR if they feel they that the register does'nt have any legal rights to own the domains???

gary.b

Yes, i think they can. The owners of trademarks or copywrights have to complain first though.

jmcc

Aoife-FM104 wrote:

It seems a website called "eubrowser" is trying to register as many word .ie domains as possible. For example, love.ie, sexy.ie, adult.ie, bebo.ie, irishindependent.ie etc. They all redirect to eubrowser.

I thought the IEDR were supposed to stop that kind of carry on?

Stats for EUBROWSER.COM as of 01/October/2006.
.ie total: 518
.com total: 7
.net total: 2
.org total: 3
.biz total: 3
.info total: 2
.eu total: 5 (est)
.co.uk total: 5 (est)

It is clearly a .ie targeted cyberwarehousing operation. EUBROWSER.COM exploited IEDR's lax and incompetent management by using Registered Business Names or combinations of words from them to register .ie domains.

Regards...jmcc

Laslo

Disband the IEDR - they don't have a clue.

mneylon

Ziycon wrote:

Cant the domain be taken back by IEDR if they feel they that the register does'nt have any legal rights to own the domains???

Yes. The rights holder has to lodge a complaint first however through WIPO:
http://www.iedr.ie/DisputeRes.php

http://www.iedr.ie/IEDRP-Policy.php

Decisions to date:

http://www.iedr.ie/IEDRP-Decisions.php

mneylon

They're mentioned in the Sunday Times today (I can't find an online version!)

I posted a couple of quotes from the article here:
http://www.isquattedyour.eu/2007/08/19/defending-the-indefensible-eubrowser-denies-cybersquatting/

jmcc

It was a hell of a headline and it will upset the Digital Hubby people. The big question is whether ComReg will exercise its powers over this and deal with the problem. As the WIPO/IEDRP rulings have demonstrated, there is a pattern of bad faith and abusive registrations.

Regards...jmcc