Rachel, I don't how many such instances you have
found for Govinda, or whether she would argue that they should have been entered
as Registrar Reserves, however, I received the following response from Heather Carle
in regard to a comment that I made in an open letter that I felt that Afilias and
ICANN had permitted their accredited registrars to push themselves to the head of
the cueue of fraudstars -"Again, I will forward your note on. I have read your
postings to ICANN Watch and ICANN.org and wanted to clarify one issue regarding registrar-reserved
names. In reference to your post to ICANN.org:
>>"...you can imagine the
way we feel when we see the evidence of your - Afilias and ICANN's - promoting fraudulent
Sunrise application through Afilias's Registrar Agreements.
Looks to me that your
registrars were permitted to push themselves to the head of the queue of fraudulent
applicants.
<<
Our contract with ICANN allows Afilias-authorized registrars
the opportunity to register up to 10 names that are current trademarks, trade names
or service marks and that are currently owned by the registrar in either .COM or
.NET. These names that have been reserve were hand verified at the registry, and
are listed in our WHOIS as "Registrar-reserved."
Stuff.info, to which you are referring
in the above text, is an example of one of these names and thus, is not a fraudulent
registration.
Best regards,
Heather
If Govinda's entries are not Registrar
Reserve - thenI think your claim and feelings are correct.