In the Afilias Press Release of August 15th, you can read:QUOTE: Hal Lubsen, Afilias'
CEO, said, "It is unfortunate that some individuals have misused the Sunrise period
in an attempt to abuse the process."
Four days later, Hal Lubsen's company received
payment in the region of $13000 to support the application of supposedly Trademarked
names with ZERO data - such as:
Domain ID: D70898-LRMS
Domain Name:
BURUNDI.INFO
Created On: 20-Aug-2001 15:22:20 UTC
Expiration
Date: 20-Aug-2006 15:22:20 UTC
Trademark Name: none
Trademark
Date: 2001-08-17
Trademark Country: none
Trademark
Number: none
Sponsoring Registrar: Domain Bank, Inc. (R107-LRMS
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Domain
ID: D70909-LRMS
Domain Name: ESTONIA.INFO
Created
On: 20-Aug-2001 15:22:37 UTC
Expiration Date: 20-Aug-2006 15:22:37
UTC
Trademark Name: none
Trademark Date: 2001-08-17
Trademark Country: none
Trademark Number: none
Sponsoring
Registrar: Domain Bank, Inc. (R107-LRMS)
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Domain ID: D70901-LRMS
Domain Name: CHAD.INFO
Created On: 20-Aug-2001 15:22:23
UTC
Expiration Date: 20-Aug-2006 15:22:23 UTC
Trademark
Name: none
Trademark Date: 2001-08-17
Trademark Country:
none
Trademark Number: none
Sponsoring Registrar:
Domain Bank, Inc. (R107-LRMS)
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...not to mention 88 others!
Not only
was there NO data, but every single Trademark date was outside the eligible deadline.
And
yet Hal Lubsen's company Domain Bank were willing to take around $13000 to submit
these names and (in his own words) "abuse the process".
Furthermore, in his capacity
as CEO of Afilias, he presided over the registering of these totally ineligible applications
(which his own company had profited from).
And furthermore still, when William
Lorenz decided that it was wrong to defraud the internet community, and requested
23 times (copies of all these requests available) to have the names immediately deleted
so that they would be available at Landrush, his request was declined.
To repeat the original quote from the Afilias Press Release:
QUOTE:
Hal Lubsen, Afilias' CEO, said, "It is unfortunate that some individuals have misused
the Sunrise period in an attempt to abuse the process."
Is this acceptable conduct?