.Info Sunrise and Challenge Names Still Locked After 5 years!

[Paul <paul432432@xxxxxxxxx>]

Afilias is incompetent and should have the .info registry taken away from them 
upon expiry.  Many of the best .info's are still locked 5 years after the 
Sunrise fiasco (some have even expired).  Even some of the .info's that were 
successfully challenged with valid trademarks under the Sunrise Challenge 
procedure through the WIPO and were then transferred, are still locked 
(examples are: bike.info, cms.info, datadepot.info, theweb.info).  It is almost 
as if Afilias does not want its best .info's being used as strange as it 
sounds.  Maybe Verisign who initially put the consortium of 19 registrars 
together set it up like this at the onset? 
   
  Possibly this very unfair and ridiculous new pricing proposal is just a 
distraction to get Afilias their renewal so that the outcry from the internet 
community will not be about the fact that Afilias should even be renewed. Not 
withstanding, there is no need to renew any of the registry contracts this 
early - unless of course the registries are all ICANN listens to.
   
  Paul

                
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