A search on the Companies House website lists the "nature of business" of Ovidio Ltd — the only company of the three to appear there — as "market research, opinion polling". However, EURid claims the three companies "can be regarded as one and the same", and a trawl through their static-page websites does indeed display identical text, with only the names of the companies differing. The companies' websites were all registered through an American firm called Domains By Proxy, Inc. Domains with a .eu extension became generally available earlier this year, following a "sunrise period" where European companies and organisations got first option on their names and trademarks. The launch was nonetheless plagued with complaints — including this one from registration company GoDaddy's founder Bob Parsons — that registrars were stockpiling domains by the thousand.