Americans Bob Martin, Stuart Rabin, Marc Ostrofsky and the rest of their IREIT gang are stealing all the greatest .EUropean domains from Europeans themselves by using their phantom company (with a London address) called "First Internet Technology Ltd" through which they claim to have .EU (more specifically Netherlands domiciled) trademarks and therefore rights to all these domains:
(Note: data collected from
http://www.whois.eu/ )
ads.eu
adsl.eu
art.eu
ask.eu
betting.eu
blackjack.eu
books.eu
broadband.eu
business.eu
camps.eu
cellphone.eu
chocolate.eu
chocolates.eu
computer.eu
computergames.eu
creditcards.eu
dating.eu
debt.eu
diet.eu
diets.eu
domains.eu
email.eu
euro.eu
euros.eu
fashion.eu
finance.eu
free.eu
freegames.eu
furniture.eu
game.eu
games.eu
hotel.eu
hotels.eu
jewelry.eu
love.eu
map.eu
maps.eu
mobi.eu
mortgage.eu
movies.eu
news.eu
poker.eu
rent.eu
roulette.eu
search.eu
seo.eu
software.eu
sports.eu
summercamps.eu
tickets.eu
travel.eu
vacation.eu
watches.eu
weather.eu
weightloss.eu
autoinsurance.eu
autotrader.eu
betonline.eu
car.eu
carhire.eu
carinsurance.eu
carloan.eu
carrental.eu
cars.eu
casino.eu
casinos.eu
cellular.eu
cellularphone.eu
cruise.eu
cruises.eu
diamond.eu
diamonds.eu
dietpill.eu
digitalcamera.eu
domainnames.eu
freeporn.eu
gay.eu
gays.eu
gold.eu
golf.eu
golfclub.eu
golfcourse.eu
golfequipment.eu
golfholiday.eu
holiday.eu
holidayinsurance.eu
homeinsurance.eu
homeloan.eu
job.eu
jobs.eu
laptop.eu
mobilephone.eu
mobilephones.eu
money.eu
mortgageloan.eu
motorinsurance.eu
music.eu
mutualfunds.eu
onlinebank.eu
onlinecasino.eu
onlinedating.eu
onlinedegree.eu
onlinepoker.eu
phonecards.eu
photo.eu
photographer.eu
photography.eu
porn.eu
porno.eu
printers.eu
ringtone.eu
ringtones.eu
securedloan.eu
travelinsurance.eu
Since they have been already accepted and granted rights for such valuable domains like Game.eu and Games.eu (and many others from this list),
I guess my question is who is playing stupid here and why? Is it possible that out of so many applications for the same name, the one that always wins surely belong to those with deepest pockets, irregardless of their supposed (true) location and nationality?