Comment Re:Who said business is fair? (Score 1) 259
OK, a lot of people have completely missed the bigger issue here; either that or the selfish attitudes typed out on here are demonstrations of why the rest of the world is fed up of "profit at all cost" corporate America.
The main point is not that GoDaddy lost out, although since, for once, they appear to have behaved ethically, they do deserve some credit not derision. If they had done the same trick of registering 2000 bogus registrars --- which they could have done given their sacks of money and when they saw others doing it --- everyone here would be out for GoDaddy's blood; so they can't really win can they. No, instead of just playing the same dirty tactics as the domain speculators they chose to try and lobby EurID for a better system, can they not be applauded for once?
No, the real reason the .eu fiasco sucks and the real reason Europe is annoyed is because the ordinary citizens and small businesses of Europe lost out, including one-man-band development shops who wanted the .eu name of their product etc, but either their company status meant they did not qualify for or could not afford the sunrise fees (remember the sunrise fees didn't give any guarantees of success either). These ordinary citizens and small businesses all went to their familiar, well established registrars who they've dealt with for years, such as 123-reg.co.uk, 1and1.co.uk, eclipse.net.uk, godaddy.com too I guess, thinking that the big name companies they knew well would do their best for them. The ordinary citizens and small businesses DID NOT KNOW about the legions of fake registrars, or have any way to contact them and have them grab on their behalf, or any way to sort through the hundreds of "registrars" listed on the EurID website and choose one that stood a chance of getting a result for them, or ANY KNOWLEDGE WHATSOEVER of how the landrush was going to work.
So essentially it looks like .eu is just going to end up just as much a useless wasteland of parked domains as .com is, but had a fairer allocation system been employed, ordinary people could have had their ordinary domains.
The final point is that it isn't too late to fix this. Since there were no guarantees about who got which domain in the landrush, it's not too late for EurID to declare the whole thing void and rerun it on fairer terms to the established registrars. So long as they do it before many websites get established on the new domains, nobody is going to have any case for suing for loss of their domain when the landrush is scrapped.
The main point is not that GoDaddy lost out, although since, for once, they appear to have behaved ethically, they do deserve some credit not derision. If they had done the same trick of registering 2000 bogus registrars --- which they could have done given their sacks of money and when they saw others doing it --- everyone here would be out for GoDaddy's blood; so they can't really win can they. No, instead of just playing the same dirty tactics as the domain speculators they chose to try and lobby EurID for a better system, can they not be applauded for once?
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The final point is that it isn't too late to fix this. Since there were no guarantees about who got which domain in the landrush, it's not too late for EurID to declare the whole thing void and rerun it on fairer terms to the established registrars. So long as they do it before many websites get established on the new domains, nobody is going to have any case for suing for loss of their domain when the landrush is scrapped.
