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An announcement today on the ICANN site indicates that Afilias intends on filing
challenges themselves against any obviously bogus sunrise application for .info if
no other challenges are filed. This is good news, indicating that there's more
chance that people who didn't play properly by the rules during the .info rollout
won't get to keep domains registered fraudulently, and some of those names will go
back into the available pool. However, these challenges will most likely take
place well after the landrush period, so it is unclear in what manner the domains
in question will be released to the public; if it's done during "first come, first
served" live registration, there'll be the same problem with expired names now, in
that all the speculators are going to tie up the servers checking on their status
until the second they're released. It would be fairer to give first shot to those
who attempted to get the names in question in the pre-registration period prior to
the opening of the landrush. All of this, however, still leaves the fundamental
unfairness of the sunrise period, with lots of *legitimate* trademarks getting undue
preference over reasonable generic uses of their name -- a situation which big-business
wants to impose on *all* new TLDs, as shown by the threatened legal action by Amazon.com
against NeuLevel due, in part, to the lack in .biz of an automatic first shot at
registering names for trademark holders.
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