The Sunrise Period was designed to allow holders of registered trademarks to reserve the corresponding dot-info domain names, and attracted over 52,000 registrations. It was subsequently discovered that over 17,000 of the registers did not own the relevant trademark.
-They did the best of a bad situation," Adrian Kanderis, managing director of sales and marketing for RegistrarsAsia told ZDNet Australia. -They did better than dot-biz, anyway. They went for an uncomplicated method but they forgot there are people out there who will bend the rules. They've done well to correct it now, they've righted a wrong."
The LandRush2 (LR2) will be held in a round-robin format on a first-in first-serve basis, that favours registrars who submit only one application for each domain name. -It's the same way dot-biz went the second time, and gives registrars an opportunity to tackle it the way they want to tackle it," said Kanderis. He noted that RegistrarsAsia will accept multiple applications.
-We've had quite a bit of interest from clients with big lists of names, mostly overseas clients," he said.
The names up for grabs this time around include: aussie, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, sydneysuburbs and melgibson.
>The Sunrise Period was designed to allow holders of registered trademarks to reserve the corresponding dot-info domain names, and attracted over 52,000 registrations. It was subsequently discovered that over 17,000 of the registers did not own the relevant trademark.
The truth is that the Sunrise Period was obviously designed to allow trademarks unfair and unlawful advantage over small businesses without trademark and the people.
>“They did the best of a bad situation,” Adrian Kanderis, managing director of sales and marketing for RegistrarsAsia told ZDNet Australia. “They did better than dot-biz, anyway. They went for an uncomplicated method but they forgot there are people out there who will bend the rules. They’ve done well to correct it now, they’ve righted a wrong.”
"FORGOT!!!" - Afilias bend the blinking rules themselves. They have not corrected it - they have not righted a wrong. Corrupt people still have taken advantage of the situation.
>The LandRush2 (LR2) will be held in a round-robin format on a first-in first-serve basis, that favours registrars who submit only one application for each domain name. “It’s the same way dot-biz went the second time, and gives registrars an opportunity to tackle it the way they want to tackle it,” said Kanderis. He noted that RegistrarsAsia will accept multiple applications.
Round Robin is corrupt system. It favours applicants in closed lists. It is not fair to all - as stated by Afilias - that was a LIE.
The Sunrise System was agreed with ICANN in advance.
ICANN and Afilias either knew the obvious flaws in the system (that would allow ALL easy fraud) or they are both guilty of gross incompetence.
In my opinion, the evidence points to they knew obvious flaws in the system - therefore are guilty of aiding and abetting corruption. Given one or two in Afilias made false trademark claims - they are guilty of fraud also.
Even a trainee programmer knows you have to validate data entry.
Sunrise abridges the right of the common person to words in an 'open' gTLD. They could easily have restricted TLDs for trademarks.
The authorities know the solution to trademark conflict and consumer confusion on the Internet. It is therefore logical to conclude that the US DoC and UN WIPO are corrupt, as they hide the answer (ratified by honest attorneys).
Please visit WIPO.org.uk to see it. Not associated with United Nations WIPO.org !