[ga] Please could Neulevel respond re: unexplained "unlocking" of names under investigation
Title: Help There has been no response from Jeff Neuman on the "unlocked" names of Cass
Foster. An explanation is clearly in order and I'm about to re-send this mail to
Jeff himself, Vint Cerf, Stuart Lynn, Dan Halloran, Nancy Victory et al:
I've been waiting patiently for a reply since 18th July. The Internet
public has a right to know how .biz names are being distributed and whether
names are being locked/unlocked in an arbitrary or a rational manner. The case
of the Cass Foster names has been given NO explanation as yet by Jeff Neuman.
Come on Jeff! You're more open and accountable than Hal Lubsen or Dan Halloran
aren't you?!
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Dear Mr Neuman
I wonder if I could ask you to intervene in the case of Cass Foster and Ian
Weiss (and C. Finkelstein) and their .biz2B registrations. I drew your attention
to this two weeks ago and I now have further information, but have had no reply
from you.
Neulevel "locked" the .biz2B registrations of Cass Foster (who also
featured prominently in the .info Sunrise affair) and three weeks ago these
names appeared in the WHOIS again with different registrant details and
"unlocked".
If you look up the WHOIS for any of the names below (see foot of e-mail),
you will see that in the .biz2B, all these names were registered through R&K
Global 000Domains.
About 3 weeks ago when Cass Foster's name disappeared from them, it seems
the public did not get a chance to obtain them, because somehow, every single
one was transferred through the same registrar, to 2 new mass-applicants, Ian
Weiss and C. Finkelstein. Stranger still, these names HAD been locked on the
same day as all the other ones you had locked in early April. Now suddenly, they
were all unlocked again.
The DNS is supposed to be a worldwide resource, available to the entire
internet public? What happened in this case? The names seem to have been simply
re-named in the names of friends, and Neulevel or the registrar seem to have
said "That's good enough for us" and the names have all been unlocked. Who
authorised these names to be unlocked?
I have been tracking these particular names since the second week in April.
Could you explain what happened, Mr Neuman?
I also notice that, extraordinarily, the same two applicants have obtained
9 other registrations (eg: manufacturing.biz and student insurance.biz) which
Cass Foster made through DomainDiscover - these names have also been transferred
to Ian Weiss and C. Finkelstein.
And another thing. Cass Foster comes from Tempe, Arizona (according to the
WHOIS on other Cass Foster registrations)
Well guess where C. Finkelstein (C.F.) (who's been re-registering these
names) comes from?
You guessed that one too: Tempe, Arizona
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Did Neulevel ever actually unlock these names?
Was there a deal?
What is the relationship between Cass Foster and C. Finkelstein? (I would
guess they look very similar, and not just share the same initials "C.F." and
the same town "Tempe, Arizona")
Extraordinary.
Did Cass Foster convince you that he had a legitimate business use for the
names? If so, he has already GONE BACK ON HIS WORD because according to the
whois, he has sold gun.biz and surveillance.biz to N. Beck of Beck's gun shop.
And if you were convinced that Cass Foster had legitimate business plans
for all those names, WHY transfer half the names to "C. Finkelstein" and half
the names to Ian Weiss?
To me, it doesn't add up.
Why were they locked in April and May and June, then suddenly in July they
are unlocked and all handed over to two other people? (One of whom is the
business partner of Cass Foster, and the other possibly doesn't exist.)
Either Cass Foster registered these names legitimately to develop them
himself as a business enterprise, or the names are invalid? Why the transfers?
Why unlock the names?
And who authorised the names to be unlocked?
Then again, if you take a look at the WHOIS details!!!
Search on Cass Foster and then search on C. Finkelstein. They have
the same phone number. Talk about amazing coincidences!
How were the names (which were locked) transferred from Cass Foster to Ian
Weiss? Who authorised that this could go ahead and that the names could be
unlocked?
Ian Weiss, incidentally, registered the following names in the .info
Sunrise, which were successfully challenged:
Ian Weiss cellphones.info
Ian Weiss communitycolleges.info Ian Weiss conflictmanagement.info Ian Weiss fantasies.info Ian Weiss funeralhomes.info Ian Weiss grants.info Ian Weiss highbloodpressure.info Ian Weiss immunesystem.info Ian Weiss inventions.info Ian Weiss memorabilia.info Ian Weiss nympho.info Ian Weiss russianwives.info Ian Weiss talentagencies.info Ian Weiss vendingmachines.info Ian Weiss weapons.info An explanation from neulevel and R&KGlobal is required, and there is a
strong case to be made for these names to be returned into the pool, so that the
general public can have a fair access to them.
Of the 15 .info Sunrise names that Ian Weiss lost by challenge, Cass Foster
gained 5 of them in LR2. Surprise, surprise!
Now we learn that half Cass Foster's "locked" names have been transferred
to Ian Weiss
Who authorised that these .biz2B names should be unlocked?
Is there any integrity in Neulevel's processes? What action is Neulevel
going to take? What credibility can ICANN take for its own processes? What light
does this cast the US Govt in, who oversees this whole system?
Take a look at the WHOIS for coffeemachines.biz which Ian Weiss of Tempe,
Arizona registered in the .biz2B... this name has been locked by Neulevel and
remains locked
Note the e-amil address which is the same as Cass Foster's:
Domain Name: COFFEEMACHINES.BIZ
Domain ID: D2754483-BIZ Sponsoring Registrar: DOMAINDISCOVER Registrant ID: RDNA-0001226769 Registrant Name: Ian Weiss Registrant Address1: P.O. Box 7700 Registrant City: Tempe Registrant State/Province: AZ Registrant Postal Code: 85281 Registrant Country: United States Registrant Country Code: US Registrant Phone Number: +1.4805555555 Registrant Email: fosterian@att.net Moreover, Ian Weiss of Tempe Arizona (sharing same e-mail and same registrar as Cass Foster) obtained these .biz2B names: coffeemachines.biz|NOT available|Ian Weiss |Domain Discover
freightforwarding.biz|NOT available|Ian Weiss |Domain Discover golfballs.biz|NOT available|Ian Weiss |Domain Discover religiousgifts.biz|NOT available|Ian Weiss |Domain Discover scrapmetal.biz|NOT available|Ian Weiss |Domain Discover usimmigration.biz|NOT available|Ian Weiss |Domain Discover All these are "locked" by Neulevel, except golfballs.biz which is unlocked
and has been updated with the same details Ian Weiss added when Cass Foster's
names were transferred to him
Why has Neulevel allowed golfballs.biz to be unlocked and updated?
And why did Neulevel allow all Cass Foster's names to be unlocked and transferred (to a man who shares the same e-mail)? Lots of questions for Neulevel and the registrars involved to answer.
Jeff, I really think the internet community and all those ordinary users
who have a right to these names deserve an explanation of what on earth's going
on, and primarily (a) who authorised these names to be unlocked (b) do you
seriously think these names are NOT part of a speculating activity (c) what
action is Neulevel going to take (b) why do SOME names appear to be locked and
others (like golfballs.biz) are left unlocked?
In the interests of the integrity of Neulevel - and more importantly in the
interests of Neulevel's customers - please make some comment and please
intervene.
Kind regards
Richard Henderson
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listed below:
The .biz2B names of Cass Foster which have been "unlocked" and
transferred.
And the .info Sunrise names of Cass Foster which were mostly challenged and
taken off him.
Cass Foster's .biz2B registrations were:
adoption.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
adultsites.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
alaskahunting.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
allergies.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
babyproducts.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
biblesoftware.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
bridalregistry.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav
Kendra Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
calcium.biz|NOT available|Cass Foster Registrant Organization: Manav Kendra
Enterprises Inc. |R&K Global Business Services Inc. (000domains.com)
............. and about a hundred more listed on the ICANN NewTLDs
Evaluation Process Public Forum (but omitted here to save space) ... see: http://forum.icann.org/cgi-bin/rpgmessage.cgi?newtldevaluationprocess;3D49676000000FCF
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