as I know you have Richard - you could actually believe that ICANN and Afilias were
fully aware of the potential for TM frauds and cybersquatting in the .info Sunrise
- and that the ICANN/Afilias Registry Agreement signed after the awarding of the
.info registry to Afilias would contain the IP safeguards that Afilias detailed in
the bid document.However, for reasons best known to the likes of Stuart Lynn,
Vint Cerf and Hal Lubsen - the IP protection safeguards of the Afilias bid document
didn't make it into the Registry Agreement.
We know the result, for which
Stuart and Vint and Hal must take full responsibility - 10,000 instances of the registry
Afilias registering ineligible Sunrise applications - 10,000 instances of the registry
Afilias and its registrars taking five year registration fees - and 10,000 instances
of a name being being removed from the Landrush lottery.
Thank heaven that not
one Landrusher had spent good money on any one of the 10,000 names removed from the
Landrush lottery - for Afilias, being a respected and ethical and accountable company,
would then have been obligated to return the 10,000 names to the Landrushers without
additional costs to them, or have ensured their registrars provided full refunds
of preregistration fees.