One of the staggering things to me is that Spy Productions is still selling .info
names, after their complicity in the Sunrise fraud.Hundreds of fake Trademark
numbers were put in by Spy Productions for their sunrise fraud customers.
The numbers
nearly all start with the same sequence, followed by variant final numbers.
This
same number sequence is even used by Lars Hindsley, their President, in his own Sunrise
applications.
And Lars concedes that he was prepared to contemplate Sunrise frauds,
providing his customers "did it with their eyes open", because so many of the big
boys in the industry were "at it as well".
This last point was proved true by companies
like Yesnic.
But where does all this leave the consumer?
Who protects the consumer?
Is
this an unregulated "rogue" industry?
Is ICANN happy to just let this all happen?
Lars
Hindsley comes across in his various e-mails to me as a pleasant, hard-working man
who has tried hard to build up his business. He has been more responsive and candid
than many people in this affair.
However the bottom line is that Landrush consumers
were de-frauded out of millions of dollars by fraudulent actions by individuals,
registrars, Afilias executives, Afilias Directors, and there has been NO response
or intervention by ICANN to the detail of these very serious matters.
Fraudulent
registrars just keep on trading.