RE: [ga] Still more fraud being reported...

["Michael D. Palage" <michael@palage.com>]

Just so both sides of the story are heard, it might be helpful to read
Afilias response to Bhavin's analysis.




To: ICANN Registrar Constituency
From: Afilias
Reference: Turakhia Registrar Posting w/r/t .INFO Challenges

We note Mr. Turakhia's recent posting to the Registrar Constituency mailing
list regarding the ".INFO names still unchallenged."  We regret that he
failed to contact Afilias to ascertain the facts surrounding this process.
As a result, there are a number of gross inaccuracies in his posting.

First, all of Mr. Plankenstein's domains HAVE been challenged.  Mr.
Plankenstein's 140 allegedly unchallenged domain names are not part of LR2
because they have not yet completed the challenge process.  Second, many of
the people or organizations that Mr. Turakhia has alleged as committing
fraud show numerous legitimate trademark owners who used an alias account
through a common registrar.  In other instances, registrars inadvertently
supplied incorrect registrant data, which they later corrected in the Shadow
database.  Mr. Turakhia evidently relied on the original, faulty data.

Regarding the 6 specific names cited by Turakhia:
-- You will note in the Whois that the 3 Plankenstein names (alava.info,
aragon.info, avila.info) remain locked. All three were challenged by members
of the public.  Two remain subject to Afilias challenges of last resort, and
the winning public challenger has not yet taken possession of the third.
-- The other three (accelerator.info, airwear.info, findus.info) were either
challenged by Afilias or found to be valid Sunrise registrations.

None of Mr. Turakhia's examples hold up against the facts, and his
conclusions are deeply flawed.

Afilias has expended a significant amount of resources attempting to
identify inappropriate registrations, and when qualified trademark owners
have established proof of their rights in a mark we have withdrawn
challenges.  Afilias acknowledges that there may still be inappropriate
Sunrise Registrations and believes that it has used reasonable safeguards to
identify a significant number of inappropriate registrations.  Further,
aggrieved parties have recourse to the Uniform Domain Name Dispute
Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the legal system to resolve remaining issues.

We suggest to Mr. Turakhia that, should he have any additional questions or
comments in the future, it would be beneficial to the greater community to
verify the facts before making public comments.

Best regards,
Afilias


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ga@dnso.org [mailto:owner-ga@dnso.org]On Behalf Of
DannyYounger@cs.com
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:19 PM
To: ga@dnso.org
Subject: [ga] Still more fraud being reported...


>From the registrars list:

Afilias released 17022 names in the .INFO Landrush 2, however the same
People who registered these 17022 FRAUDULENT SUNRISE Names, continue to own
another 14000+ names which have NOT been challenged by Afilias (The numbers
may not be exact - check inaccuracies section on online report)

For instance lets take the LARGEST Fraudulent Domain Registrant -
Plankenstein, who had fraudulently registered 4938 .INFO Domains in the
Sunrise period. Plankenstein still continues to own approximately 140
Sunrise domains after the Afilias Landrush is over. Check the whois on
alava.info, aragon.info, avila.info etc.

Visit http://dotinfo.directi.com for the complete research (an interesting
study born out of one night of insomnia and boredom)

A far more smarter FRAUD which has gone undetected is that of
domain@se.euro909.com. In the .INFO Sunrise this email address had
registered 663 .INFO NAMES. After the Afilias Challenge the same email
address continues to hold 646 UNCHALLENGED names. Check the whois on
accelerator.info, airwear.info, findus.info. Notice that very smartly this
person has put in DIFFERENT Registrants for each domain name, however the
FUNNY part is that EVERY DOMAIN NAME has a trademark date of 2000-10-01 and
all the Registrants share the same email address (oh yea and all of them
have a funny phone number too).

Check out the Complete list at http://dotinfo.directi.com

Best Regards
Bhavin Turakhia
CEO
Directi

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/registrars/Arc01/msg02477.html
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