Re: [registrars] FW: UK reg balls up!

[Jeff Shrewsbury Info Avenue Internet Services <iamarketing@infoave.net>]

incredible. Simply incredible. 

Good planning, Afilias. What's next?  An auction site for the names
you reserved for yourself? 



At 10:28 AM 9/7/01 +0530, Bhavin Turakhia wrote:
> I had not
> entered any trademark info, never mind any false info as I was never
> asked for any. I have checked all of my "TM" dates and they are
> either 1899 or 2040, half of the stuff I registered were hardly common
> phrases in the late 19th century and I think the 2040 date is self
> explanatory. So I have looked at other domains regd at the same registrar
> and you wouldn't believe it, yep, you guessed it, 1899 and 2040, very
> perculiar don't you agree? 
>  
> I am in full agreement of the DOMEBASE
> proposal and have contacted Afilias, explained my situation and asked for
> my registrations to be cancelled. They said they could not, but maybe one
> possible way to release the names would be to challenge myself... Doh!!!,
> why didn't I think of that? Over 100 domains at $295 a pop, not bloody
> likely, so now I face having to lose all the names I have planned for the
> past year, to somebody who has no TM right to the domain either, all this
> because they did not program a back door into the registry program to
> unlock domains in circumstances such as
> these