Eurostar, the railways company that links Europe and UK, have lost the possibility to buy the domain name Eurostar.eu because a small Belgian diamond cutter, Eurostar Diamond Traders, first introduced the request.

Eurostar, SNCF and SNCB asked the cour (tribunal de commerce de Paris) to force the diamond cutter to withdraw its request, but no success.

According to Eurid, the rule is clear and the distribution of the names is done in the order of arrivals. Actually, the diamond cutter made the request the same day than the railways company, but 6 minutes before.

This post exists just for this conclusion. Eurostar : 6 minutes too late.

for those which do not know :
EURID is in charge of the domain names "eu".
source : lesoir.be, January

Labels: internet

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