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I have not thoroughly researched this, but my gut feeling
is that Registrars (and/or the Registry) had an obligation to make sure that the
non-trademark fields were accurate, and that the trademark-related fields had some
plausibly formated information in them (e.g. date prior to October 2, 2000 in the
date field, name in the trademark field, etc.), but, the way the Sunrise period was
set up, neither the Registrars nor the Registry had an obligation to check
on the validity of plausible trademark information... that was supposed to be handled
by the Sunrise Challenge and WIPO process. Two main problems happened -- one
concerning implementation (even rudimentary data checks not done on trademark fields)
and one concerning design (the "musical chairs lottery" aspect of the challenges.
Both problems could still be corrected by... well you folks all know how I would
finish this sentence.
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