Re: [ga] .info irregularities

[Sotiris Sotiropoulos <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

What disturbs me most about the dotster.com pre-registration process is the
fact
that there is no longer a public record of the dotster pre-registration
winning
bid queue.  When we "won" our bid for the .info registration, I was able to
verify our
winning bid by checking back with dotster shortly after the extended Phase 2
pre-registration deadline period.  The dbase with their winning bid
pre-registration queue information is no longer available for public perusal,
and they (as yet) have sent no confirmation of our "winning bid".  In one
response which they sent me *today*, they write:

""PREREGISTRATION FOR INFO
The process of bidding is complete and the domain owners have been selected. 
We
are still in the process of doing all the billing to the large number or our
customer's who have successfully bid on their domain.  However, this is a
lengthy process and we will not be able to list each recipient of the domain
until we have successfully billed their credit card.  This means that if you
go
to the .Info Whois and it says that Dotster is the Registrar, you have not
been
billed.  This entire process for all of our customers should be complete no
later than Wednesday afternoon.  At this time, all awarded domains will have
the
correct owner information and be in the correct account."

1) it's going on two weeks after the pre-registration bid deadline and I have
yet to receive confirmation on my winning bid with respect to the dotster
pre-registration dbase-- a record which ALL winning bid pre-registrants should
have made available to them since,

2) with no record (public or otherwise) of the "correct accounts" there is
really no way to verify if the correct accounts are filled with the correct
registration, and therefore no way to prove any domain hijacking/misplacing at
the registrar level.

I find all of this to be a matter of serious concern.

Most Sincerely,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
        Hermes Network Inc.




Ken Stubbs wrote:

> PLEASE LET ME KNOW WHAT THE NAME WAS YOU TRIED TO OBTAIN
>
> ken stubbs
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sotiris Sotiropoulos" <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>
> To: "ga" <ga@dnso.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:06 PM
> Subject: [ga] .info irregularities
>
> > 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?!
> >
> > Furious,
> >
> > Sotiris Sotiropoulos
> >
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