Re: [ga] Afilias is cybersquatting

[steinle@smartvia.de]

to Jeffrey A. Williams and all assembly members:
your reply isn't displayed at the the DNSO Mailling lists archives.
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc08/mail20.html
therefore i will mail it again for the records

> Steinle and all assembly members,
>   Yes.  And what you show below is just the 
> tip if the iceberg, so to
> speak!  Our staff has found quite a number of 
> other similar violations
> from Afilias as well as Neulevel in this 
> area.  We have forwarded them
> to the USPTO and the DOJ for their information.
>   It would seem obvious that the ICANN BOD and 
> staff have more than
> ample justification for revoking afilias's and 
> Neulevel's Registry contract
> immediately!  However, given the political 
> bedfellows that these two
> companies are with certain ICANN BoD members 
> is, it is very
> doubtful that this action will be taken.  Yet, 
> we [INEGroup] believe
> that it should be, along with a stiff fine!
> steinle@smartvia.de wrote:
> > Afilias has registered many domain names 
> which are in fact trademarks by other
> > parties. Afilias has registered directory.
> info and squatted on UK trademark 276801
> > (word only). But that is only one example. 
> Below you can find some more.
> >
> > SEARCH.INFO: They are squatting on UK 
> trademarks (word only) 1056333, 1380291,
> > 1380292, 1436692, 1436693, 1459763 and 
> 1572389
> >
> > DOT.INFO: They are squatting on European 
> trademark (word only) E1143700, on UK
> > trademarks (word only) 343477, 550623, 
> 840483, 898994, 900985, 957376, 1121916,
> > 1534077 and 2151274
> >
> > EMAIL.INFO: They are squatting on UK 
> trademarks (word only) 987603, 987604 and
> > 1055042
> >
> > Afilias has registered 150+ domain names. In 
> fact they could register up to 10000
> > domain names according to the contract with 
> ICANN. If we would check all the
> > registered domain names, I think this could 
> proof that Afilias is one of the biggest
> > .info cybersquatter like YesNIC Co., LTD., 
> an Afilias-authorized registrar.
> >
> > Is a trademark 'directory' or 'dot' less 
> worth than a trademark 'apple' or 'amazon'?
> > Is there a law for Afilias and another for 
> us?
> > Why have a sunrise period, if even the 
> registry is squatting on trademarks?
> >
> > To view the sources of the information you 
> can use these links:
> > http://nic.info.xs2.net (if you use name.
> space DNS: http://www.nic.info)
> > http://www.url.free.new.net/nicinfo/news.html
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> --
> Jeffrey A. Williams
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