January 10, 2006 :
The Eurostar railway network and the Eurostar Dutch diamond merchant both applied for the domain name eurostar.eu, on the basis of legitimate registered trademarks EUROSTAR but the Dutch company was 6 minutes faster.
The railway network chose to contest EDT’s application before the French Commercial Court on the basis of a coexistence agreement between the 2 parties, but, as the agreement did not mention anything about domain names, the judge asked for more information. To be continued