Not sure how true this story is, but the possibility of it isn’t very comforting. To quote from the article directly:
The big losers are the Europeans.
The irony of this fiasco is that the primary victims will be the Europeans. Because of the way the EURid registry allowed the landrush process to be gamed, the Europeans will have to pay ultra high premium prices for many of the names they should have had fair access to during the landrush period. This assumes that they’ll be able to get those names to begin with.
