Others claimed that .eu domain had been actively targeted during the sunrise period by speculators using fast-track Benelux trademarks to create "prior rights" on various high-value generic terms and during the landrush by speculators using EU front companies in the UK and Cyprus to register large numbers of domains. While speculative activity occurred with the launch of other domains, it was the scale of the activity that called into question the competence of EURid in protecting the integrity of eu ccTLD.