Fabrizio,I am a big fan of your posts and enthusiasm
for .WEB/IOD. I am also a .WEB customer. I have receipts from IOD, and
on those receipts, it states:
"DMC.WEB has been registered in your name.
You are now the owner of this domain."
Then the receipt is time-stamped, dated,
etc.
As far as I am concerned, I own the domain name DMC.WEB. If that sale
was illegal, not proper, etc., ICANN should have warned IOD and potential customers
PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 29, 2000. IOD sales have been generated for approximately
4 to 5 years. My .WEB domain name was purchased well before ICANN posted any
DNSO warning. In my opinion, a DNSO warning did not exist until it served the
interest of Ken Stubbs and Afilias. At very least, the DNSO warning, posted
well over a month ago, hurt IOD sales, thereby hurting IOD financially, for at least
one month. Don't think this fact was lost on Stubbs, nor ICANN. According to
IOD, sales of registrations increased as time went by, as more people discovered
IOD and .WEB.
A simple "okay" from the DNSO pertaining to IOD registrations would
have skyrocketed IOD's financial picture.
You see what I'm saying? ICANN
and the DNSO had some impact/control over IOD's financial picture. THIS IS
A FAIR PROCESS? I don't think so.