Here on this forum, Kelly Jones posted a message on August 3rd 2001 which listed
many examples of fake Sunrise registrations from the WHOIS, with this clear summary:"How
can we be expected to spend nearly $300 to fight bogus registrations? Doesn't afilias
check the tms? Do they create a bogus system so they can force people to spend even
more money to challenge a registration (which can't be gotten by the challenger anyway)
when it is afilias sunrise system that causes this problem in the first place? This
is disgusting. I hope Icann steps in and either straightens this out or picks a more
responsible registry. This is fraud!"
It is the Afilias Sunrise system that causes
the problem in the first place... I hope ICANN steps in
She summed it up so well
way back then! But did ICANN step in? NO - they were the ones who set up the contract,
they were the ones who presided over the shambles and the fraud.
But let NO-ONE
say that Afilias couldn't have done anything about it. They knew about it (because
this forum told them, right from the beginning). They were shown a remedy (the excellent
Domebase proposal).
And ICANN knew all this as well.
But to Stuart Lynn, this
forum is "a joke" : unbelievable!