Well, if it's only the symbol domains that are affected, they were never worth anything.
Not really !
Maybe you live in USA and your keyboard doesnt natively have the Euro symbol (â¬) on it.........
Consider that here in Europe we all (over 500 millions) have it and its common to use the word "euro" or its graphic symbol with the meaning of "european" composing companies names or logos !
Also domains like 1â¬, 10⬠and so on are worth quite a bit.
Same for all IDNs containing the English pound symbol.
There is something i dont understand..... there are not any security issues in regard of using the Euro symbol, in fact it has been allowed for years, now what ?
They gonna barely refund the reg fees but why these IDN has been allowed for 6 years (and perfectly working and resolving on most of browsers) if they were meant to be dismissed ?
Who is gonna refund me 6 years of renewals Verisign cashed apparently in bad faith and all the time and money i spent to promote my names ?
I really think there could be ground for a class action lawsuite.