John,
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