I call on ICANN to commence Sanctions procedures against Afilias if the names registered
for William Lorenz are not deleted immediately.Afilias has the powers to delete
these names immediately under section I (i) of Exhibit E of the Registry-Registrar
Agreement.
William Lorenz has requested Afilias and DomainBank EIGHTEEN times to
delete 91 ineligible names registered in his name.
There have been repeated requests
from around the world for these ineligible names to be deleted immediately and released
to the public (an obligation Afilias has under the ICANN-Afilias agreed Code of Conduct,
to administer DNS resources "in a manner that makes them available to all parties").
I
request that ICANN INSIST these names are deleted IMMEDIATELY, and that sanctions
are put in place if Afilias does not comply.
I draw attention to :
THE REGISTRY-REGISTRAR
AGREEMENT
(see link below)
Section 3.5 states: "Registrar SHALL COMPLY with
all of the following:..."
3.5.2 "...The Registry Operator's standards as set out
in EXHIBIT E"
EXHIBIT E Section V.3.PROCESSING
"In order for TM owners to qualify
for registration during the Sunrise period, the following information MUST be provided
to Registry Operator (Afilias): 1. Trademark Name 2. TM date 3. TM country 4. TM
number"
"REGISTRAR SHALL REQUIRE THIS INFORMATION"
Elsewhere in Section 3.6 it
states:
"As part of its registration and sponsorship of Registered Names in the
Registry TLD, the registrar SHALL SUBMIT COMPLETE DATA."
In the case of 91 names
sponsored by DomainBank for William Lorenz, DomainBank were in breach of their Registry-Registrar
Agreement.
I assert that Afilias is in breach of its ICANN-Registry Operator agreement,
in that they (a) failed to enforce the requirements of the Registry-Registrar agreement
with DomainBank; (b) failed - and continue to fail - to administer the DNS resources
(specifically these 91 names) in a "manner that makes them available to all parties".
As
Mr Hal Lubsen is both an executive of DomainBank and CEO of Afilias, I find these
breaches at Registry and Registrar level to be particularly grievous.
Taken with
the sponsorship of the "Plankenstein names" by Speednames (also represented on the
Afilias Board) these abuses of the process have been responsible for over 50% of
all Sunrise fake registrations.
In addition, there is the one-off case of the Afilias
Board member Govinda Leopold, whose company 1stDomainNet procured Hawaii.info and
Maui.info with fake Trademark numbers (which Govinda has already admitted, though
attributing it to one-off error... an error which was repeated a month later with
Govinda.info). While this individual case may be rationalised magnanimously as a
"mistake", what remains inexplicable is that the three names have been retained and
not deleted, to "make them available to all parties" (ie the public) as the Code
of Conduct stipulates.
I await ICANN's response to these very specific and (I believe)
reasonable allegations.