Reply from Moshe Fogel of Afilias today (one of the few
Afilias officials I have found who has tried to be helpful)"Hi,
Currently ,
there is a slight delay in publishing the .info start up results , and they are expected
to sunday/monday. No delay is currently announced to the real time registration.
Regards,
Moshe"
From
an old email of 25 June I have an interesting response from him when I pointed out
a registar UKreg was telling customers that trademark details were "optional" during
the Sunrise period.
"...UKreg are misleading you and probably others. The
Sunrise period is opened to trademark (and service mark) holders ,to protect those
rights before the public is allowed to register. However , if you decide to
provide fraudulent details as if you were the trade mark holders , it will
be checked after the name has been registered , using the dispute challenge process
mechanism where every one
can challenge a sunrise domain name registrant to prove
his trade mark
of the name.
Hope it was clear enough,
Regards,
Moshe Fogel
Afilias
Ltd."