Take a look at this email a few angry registrants have
sent me. If this isn't
blatant encouragement of fraud,
I don't know what is. From what I understand by
reading
an earlier post, the head of this registrar
submitted bad applications too. In
fact, you will find
countless fake trademark applications sent in by this
registrar,
registrar 5007-TU. From the confidence
expressed in the following email, you have
to wonder
how involved Afilias is in all
this with encouraging fraud themselves:
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If you hold an Advance Request
through SpyProductions
for a .info domain name, it is important that you read
this
e-mail.
The time has come everyone, SpyProductions is making
good
on its promise to register .info domains at the
earliest possible time: that time
is next Wednesday
July 25th !
To verify you have requested a .info
domain with us,
use the search feature at our Domain Name Center:
http://www.spyproductions.com/dnc/
Enter the names
you requested and click on them as they display on the
results
screen.
Spy shuts down the queue on Monday night for final
prep
of the database Tuesday, and registrations begin
Wednesday.
For large orders requiring pre-payment we will hold
your money
on deposit and refund the unused amount.
Both SpyProductions and you must sign
our .info
sunrise agreement before a large order will be
processed. This is
to protect you and SpyProductions.
Our staff is rushing to complete all calls
to large
order customers by Friday. If you have invalid
information in
your domain request records, your order
is in jeopardy of not being completed.
WHY SHOULD I PLACE MY DOMAIN IN THE SUNRISE?
Why not! Did you know that during land rush your
odds of getting any of your
names is less than 5% with
any registrar! However during sunrise your odds
through
SpyProductions is as high as 80%. Why?
Because the registry is not policing
sunrise
registrations. They have instituted a plan to allow
challenges
after a registration but those challenges
will only be upheld for two reasons:
-One if you register a trade marked name,
-Two if you register a name with no intent to
use it.
To safeguard against the second potential challenge,
we
IMPLORE you to put up an “under construction” page
for any domain(s) you successfully
register. This
protects you from that type of challenge, unless
somehow
you are challenged as a speculator.
Furthermore, a challenge will cost the would-be
challenger
$295.00. That cost alone will discourage
virtually all challenges, especially
when the
challenger doesn’t have a trademark!
You must ask yourself: Is it worth $105.00 to
register and
another $220.00 if challenged?
The answer is clear when
you weigh it against not
having the name at all. Because you can bet at
landrush
the name will be gone, or you will be left
with only a 5% chance of success in
obtaining your
domain.
SpyProductions is making good on its
promise to
register domains at the earliest possible moment.
That time is
sunrise. Remember anyone can register at
sunrise. The people that
should definitely NOT
register at sunrise are those that want to register a
name
with a trademark. If you have any reason
whatsoever to believe that
your desired name(s) is
trademarked, then contact support@spyproductions.com
to
remove those names from sunrise.
To learn
more about Afilias rules on challenges see
this web page:
http://www.afilias.info/faq/sunrise-challenge.html