.info preregistrations in the first place and most if not all of them would have
paid good money for nothing with a proportion of their Landrush applications.Many
of the few thousand who got burned because Afilias and ICANN permitted Afilias registrars
and affiliates to sell Landrush tickets and Sunrise tickets for the same names are
now wishing they had never hear of Afilias and .info and won't take part in the development
of the extension.
I think .info remains an excellent extension which is going to
prove very successful for registrants of good names, but the success of the .info
extension will owe nothing to the registry Afilias and some of its shonky registrars
and affiliates who have done their best to burden the extension with associations
of incompetence and corruption.
Had the .info registry been awarded on merit rather
than to mates in the registrar's club - ICANN - the profile and success of .info
would in my opinion have been greater and ocurred sooner.
It would have been nice
had everything been above board - but it wasn't - so .info registrants will have
to work just that much harder.
I don't think anyone should expect a fair deal or
optimum development of the new extensions until those in ICANN responsible for the
fiascos of the Afilias .info and the Neulevel .biz launches are removed and replaced
by others who are prepared to administer the Internet for the good of the broad Internet
community rather than serving their own self interests.