Several news sources are pegging the .info names taken so far
at or around 25,000.... That is a whole dictionary load of the generic words that
count.As I said before there is an absolute guarantee that 99% of those names
have no Trademarks anywhere in the world. What this means is that Afilias will be
returning the TOP 20,000+ names back to the purse.
Which brings us back to LandRush-2
(the real event), to be run sometimes in 2002, along with my prediction that this
time around this will be offered as a Pay-to-Play lottery similar to the .BIZ process.
I'm
thinking at least an average of 1000 submissions for every one of those 20,000 names
at $5 a try, that is potentially a 100 million dollar event. That's right 100 million
dollars (1000x 5 x 20,000) !!!
Would anybody in his right mind mess with this kind
of an event? Afilias needs every ounce of publicity they can get between now and
the time they run LR-2, and we are providing a great deal of that.
More importantly
I hope no one here has any illusions that there is ANY WAY IN HELL, AFILIAS WILL
MESS WITH THAT KIND OF MONEY TO MAKE RIGHT BY A FEW UNHAPPY INDIVIDUALS WHO STAND
TO GET SHAFTED IN THE BOGUS EVENT CALLED LANDRUSH.
Pure and simple there is one
and only one solution for this mess, a court injunction forcing them to postpone
LandRush until they recover the stolen names.