Domain Registration Challenges

This post is from from my other blog here

A key objective of the European Union is to create a unified, barrier-free market for it's members.Domains however seem to provide a few hurdles for entry into a market that are more difficult to overcome.It's not always easy to just buy up domains. In France for example, to get a .fr domain name, you need to be a French registered company.This makes it more difficult that it should be to buy domains across the whole EU for each market in which your (EU member state registered) company operates.A Swedish friend of mine has just told me about a newsflash about a company challenging a country registrar to the EU for discrimination and unfair competition practices.Subscribe in a reader