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There is nothing alleged about this cybersquatter. Most of the ADRs against Zheng have been upheld and the cybersquatted domains have been ordered transferred. The level of blatent cybersquatting in the domains registered by Zheng is quite high and suggests an organised operation targeting European businesses and high profile brands and trademarks.

This is one of EURid's dirty little secrets. The management of EURid has been trying to ignore the problem like Zheng and other cybersquatters and cyberwarehousers in the .eu namespace because of the adverse impact that taking direct action would have on the .eu domains count. In simpler terms, it makes the management of EURid look bad having to admit that it has a massive cybersquatting/warehousing problem in .eu ccTLD. And it also makes the European Commission look like a bunch of morons for giving the management of .eu ccTLD to such a third rate venture.

Dealing with the Zheng problem is a start. However the management of EURid managed to lose a slam dunk legal action against the Ovidio syndicated last year. EURid lost for actually breaking their own rules. It is difficult for the industry to have any confidence in a registry capable of such staggering incompetence. Unless the other cybersquatting/warehousing operations are dealt with as well, this is just a sticking plaster on the corpse of .eu ccTLD.