There are many registrars who have obviously abused the system but the award for
the most blatant abuse by a registrar to whom amazingly no action has been taken
against even with tremendous evidence of their abuse as evidenced by their own words
in emails and with numerous phone conversations with registrants and by the
fact that a lot of their fake sunrise applications have the same tm numbers/format
indicating that the registrar filled in the details themselves and not to mention
false applications by the employees themselves, has to be SpyProductions.com.In
their own words from the now legendary emails:
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.
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.
And doesn't this make you
feel safe as an honest consumer:
Thanks to all for your patience with our recent
repeated e-mails.
However
we know it is imperative our customers all know
the details of these
historic domain launches. There is a lot of hype and disinformation
going
around. Our updates are solid and assuredly accurate.
Regards,
The SpyProductions Team
Who registered this one?
Domain ID: D942-LRMS
Domain Name: SPY.INFO
Created On: 25-Jul-2001 18:41:43
UTC
Expiration Date: 25-Jul-2006 18:41:43 UTC
Trademark
Name: Spy
Trademark Date: 1974-02-16
Trademark Country:
US
Trademark Number: 132454439
Sponsoring Registrar:
Tucows, Inc. (R139-LRMS)
Status: NEW
Status: LOCKED
Status: OK
Registrant ID: C2038-LRMS
Registrant
Name: Lars Hindsley
Registrant Organization: SpyProductions
Inc. DBA SpyProductions
Registrant Street1: 125 Woodshade Drive
Registrant City: Newark
Registrant State/Province: DE
Registrant Postal Code: 19702
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.3023693060
Registrant Email: domains@spyproductions.com
Admin ID: C2038-LRMS
Admin Name: Lars Hindsley
Admin
Organization: SpyProductions Inc. DBA SpyProductions
Admin Street1:
125 Woodshade Drive
Admin City: Newark
Admin State/Province
And....
Domain ID: D63544-LRMS
Domain Name: BEACH.INFO
Created On: 15-Aug-2001 06:21:28 UTC
Expiration Date: 15-Aug-2006
06:21:28 UTC
Trademark Name: BEACH
Trademark Date:
1995-12-01
Trademark Country: US
Trademark Number:
13812345
Sponsoring Registrar: Tucows, Inc. (R139-LRMS)
Status:
NEW
Status: LOCKED
Status: OK
Registrant
ID: C162920-LRMS
Registrant Name: Lars Hindsley
Registrant
Organization: SpyProductions
Registrant Street1: 125 Woodshade
Drive
Registrant City: Newark
Registrant State/Province:
DE
Registrant Postal Code: 19702-1413
Registrant Country:
US
Registrant Phone: +1.3023693060
Registrant FAX:
+1.3023696040
Registrant Email: hostmaster@spyproductions.com
Admin ID: C162920-LRMS
Admin Name: Lars Hindsley
Admin Organization: SpyProductions
Admin Street1: 125 Woodshade
Drive
Admin City: Newark
Admin State/Province: DE
Admin Postal Code: 19702-1413
Admin Country: US
Admin
Phone
These people should get an award for fraud and for their part in hurting
honest consumers. They are a startling example of greed and deceit. The startling
thing is they didn't even try to hide their fraud. Why?