Afilias has been shown that their sunrise method has been a total disaster in full
public yet the most they can offer is a pathetic we'll fix it at christmas? This
is a disgusting abuse of the public. Many hundreds of sunrise registrations have
been shown to be false with potentially thousands more to surface. Many registrars
encouraged their registrants to register names in the sunrise even though they had
no trademarks. Some of the registrars participated themselves with fake registrations
like spyproductions.com and possibly yesnic and a few others. People have thought
long and hard about solutions to this mess created by someone who obviously needs
to be fired immediately. What a sunrise disaster! But afilias compounds the initial
stupidity behind the idea of a sunrise that doesn't check all tms or doesn't come
after a landrush by not taking decisive action. They say, oh we will fix it later
after everybody spends their money to challenge. This is totally laughable. If you
are gonna check them at all, why not check them in the first place? The
time to deal with afilias is over. They have been handed on a silver platter fraudulent
registrars, fraudulent registrations, solutions to the problem and all they can offer
to honest people who have spent tons of money to preregister at landrush is wait
till christmas. Wait for what? So you can do it again? Doesn't afilias realize that
hundreds of thousands of people have lost money due to their ineptitude? Sure, preregistering
is a risk but we lose our chance because of preventable fraud?
Talk about public
relations disasters. This one is going to be studied.
We need to write congress
and we need to speak with the reporters.