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A Chinese woman, Zheng Qingyin, who registered 10,000 .eu domain names, is facing a lawsuit from Eurid, the Belgian-based domain registry that manages the .eu top-level domain. Qingyin, whose 10,000 domain names are currently suspended, has retaliated by bringing her own legal complaint according to Eurid's legal adviser.

"We know she sells these names to people for serious prices. This is a phenomenon we don't like at all, but there is nothing illegal about this," said EURid's legal manager Herman Sobrie. EURid cannot take action against someone suspected of cybersquatting; that can only be done by someone else who claims rights to a domain name. "We as register can just stand there and look at it except in one situation, which is that maybe this registrant is not eligible to have a .eu domain," said Sobrie. Eurid suspect that Qingyin is not really living where she says she is (London).

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Related topics: Cybercrime, Cybersquatting, DNS, Domain Names, Registry Services, Top-Level Domains