Dublin.tel Grabbed by Lantec (CircleID)

**Adam Dicker** · 02-01-2009, 07:00 PM

During the sunrise period for .eu domains there was quite a bit of controversy, as a number of high profile names were grabbed by companies that had no legitimate right to them.

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**britishbulldog** · 02-01-2009, 09:43 PM

True but i just don't see any value in this tld although there will be no doubt some will exchange at stupid money as per usual........

**kukgle** · 02-02-2009, 01:31 PM

I still believed tel domain could have a fast start but after 6 months, no one know.

**HomerJ** · 02-02-2009, 06:29 PM

I was researching .tel earlier and noticed that Lantec had also nabbed cars.tel during sunrise

**jmcc** · 03-03-2009, 12:08 AM

As usual there will be a bunch of fake sales (jointly owned companies selling to one another in order to create a false sense of a market). Lantec has a history of this kind of activity (using iffy trademarks to get potentially valuable domains in landrushes) though I don't think that Dublin city council ever bothered filing an ADR against Lantec for dublin.eu. In Europe, especially in Ireland and the UK, the .eu is a failure. I'm not sure how .tel will turn out but most mature markets in Europe tend to be ccTLD/.com/adjacent ccTLD. BTW .tel is not a ccTLD.

Regards...jmcc