FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS:
Schedule
of EU pre-registration stages and the public placement
Q: Brand rights – we have the brand
rights for xxx-property. Are we also entitled to protect
these rights for the domain “property.eu” in the first Sunrise
stage?
A:
The “rule book” – the detailed regulation, as specified,
should be published through the month of September 2005
online under: http://www.validation.pwc.be and under http://eurid.eu.
I can correctly answer this question after that. Certainly
at present, a valid brand of each participating country
will be of value “nonetheless.” It is therefore not necessary
to own a team brand. You will be given the option of registering
the described brand xxx-property.eu and xxxproperty.eu.
However, my opinion is that the registration of property.eu
will not be possible.
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Q:
How can I keep track of my domain order?
A: You
receive your own customer login (free) from Aktualisierer.
Within this area, to begin with, you see your “wish list”
of domains and after payment you see the confirmation notification
that we will submit the respective domains to the respective
Sunrise stages. After the start of the transmission on EURid,
a special .eu Whois database will be put on the pages of
EURid. This enables you to retrieve the following data for
the given domain names:
1.)
How many applications EURid has received for these domain
names and in which order these applications went into the
registration system.
2.)
Name and address of the applicant
3.)
Qualifying date for the applicant, in order to send the
documentation to the validation agent.
4.)
The date when the documentation is entered on EURid
5.)
The status of the application (Pending, Accepted, Rejected,
etc.)
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Q:
What can I do if I think that EURid or PWC (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
has made a mistake in regard to their assessment of my application?
A: Both
parties will undertake every effort to be sure that all
applicants will be handled correctly and to the best of
one’s knowledge and belief. Nevertheless, in case you believe
that your application has not been assessed correctly, you
have the option to contest the decision in an “Alternative
Dispute Resolution Service.” This service will still be
set up for those that presume that the Registry acted contrary
to the “Public Policy Rule.”
Please
notice: In case they register the objection in order to
transfer the names to another person, registration could
be annulled and not be transferred to the petitioner. If
another application for the domain names is in the waiting
line, it will be processed. If there is no other applicant
for the name, the domain name will be released on the “first-come-first-served”
principle to the general registration after development
of the “Sunrise Stage.”
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Q:
Which framed conditions of the EU Commission control the
placement and the operation of the EU domains?
A: In
order EG-874/2004 from 28.4.2004
German | English
For
others, order number 733/2002 of the EU Parliament and the
installment from 22.April 2002:
German | English
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Q:
A registered domain’s period of validity
A: A
.eu domain will be registered with a period of validity
for one year. The domain will be extended after the anniversary
and the Registrar will debit the registration fees from
this account.
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Q: Who settles disputes?
A: For
disputes about “.EU” domains, according to an order of the
European Parliament, one’s own arbitration is provided for.
It has been arranged according to EU regulation by a procedure
similar to the UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution
Policy), as the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
has offered for years, among other things.
EURid,
therefore, for this purpose, assigned an out of court arbitrator
for disputes about .eu domains in Prague-based arbitration
court of the Economic- and Agro-Chamber of the Czech Republic.
(www.arbcourt.cz/de/ce_index1.htm)
To
fight a case
http://adreu.eurid.eu
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Q: What does first-come, first-served
mean?
A: The
first come, first served principle is the type of order
processing that comes from all official .EU Registrars and
EURid.
All
applications for pre-registrations, Sunrise pre-registrations
and normal domain applications after the Landrush, will
be provided with an exact Timestamp and dealt with in the
rank of the placed orders.
The
procedure is not adopted voluntarily at the .EU registration,
but rather is a component of EU Regulation 874/2004 from
28. April 2004 (Article 5, Paragraph 2) and EU Regulation
733/2002 of 22. April 2002.
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Q: Which EU domains cannot be used
for the registration?
A: Eurid.eu;
registry.eu, nic.eu, dns.eu, internic.eu, whois.eu, das.eu,
coc.eu, eurethix.eu, eurethics.eu, euthics.eu
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Q:
What if I believe that a Sunrise .eu domain from the applicant
has been speculatively or improperly registered?
A: Each
party can initiate an ADR procedure against another party
that has registered a .eu domain if criteria for a speculative
and improper registration have been given according to Article
21 of the Public Policy Rules.
If the
ADR committee validates the complaint, the domain name can
be transferred to the claimant, provided that they satisfy
the criteria for registration.
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Q:
How did the procedure in the Sunrise stages function befor
April 6th ?
A: During
the “Sunrise Stage” applicants for a .eu domain will be
handled according to the “first come, first served” principle.
Each
applicant for a domain name must supply us with acceptable
evidence for the claim of the name within 40 days. Should
an application be successfully allowed, the domain name
will be given to the applicant. The domain name will first
be useable after a 40-day period in order to allow for any
mistakes and complaints. All future applications for the
same name will be notified. All applications will be openly
and visibly displayed with submission of the domain name.
Should
the first applicant for a domain name not manage to supply
the evidence within the 40-day period, the application will
be rejected. The validation agent then checks the second
application, and all further application respectively, until
a valid application has been found. If none of the applicants
can supply valid proof for the name within the 40 day period,
the domain name will be released again and will again be
able to be registered according to the “first come, first
served” principle.
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