Re: [ga] .info irregularities

["William S. Lovell" <wsl@cerebalaw.com>]

Sotiris Sotiropoulos wrote:

> I pre-registered a desirable .info domain name during the pre-registration
> phase with dotster.com.  I was the only bidder for the domain in the
> dotster.com pre-registration program, so I "won" that submission to Afilias
> from dotster.com (at least that's what I was given to understand).  Funny
> enough, I just checked the .info WHOIS and i noticed that dotster inc. is now
> the registrant of the domain they were to submit on my behalf!!  what the hell
> is going on here?!

What's going on is that ICANN is in the pocket of all those fine folks who
do that kind of profiteering, and thus has put nothing in any of its agreements
that would prevent them from ripping off you and me by any means they can
come up with.  Just as ICANN and Verisign, etc., seem to have set up the
ACPA ( that cybersquatting abomination) so that registrars can hoard and do
other things that are prohibited to us peons.

That's the charge. Anyone want to dispute it?

Bill Lovell

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The URLs for Best Practices:
DNSO Citation:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaindex.html
(Under "Other Information Documents"; "August 2001:
Proposal for Best Practices for the DNSO GA." This
page also includes much else about the DNSO.)
Part I:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BestPractices.html
Part II:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-flowchart.pdf
(Access to the .pdf file requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader,
available for free down load at
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
Part III:
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010813.GA-BP-PartIII.html


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