Jim OSRS will be sending a 'check registration' command to Afilias prior to sending our Landrush submissions. As a result, all names entered into Landrush that were already registered in Sunrise will not be submitted (again, so we maximize our chances of successful pre-registrations) As I stated in my post on Wednesday, August 29 - the majority of information can be found at: http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/gtld/info/sunrise/guide.html However, the following is the official statement by Afilias on this matter: It is possible that certain sunrise registrations may remain unchallenged even though they appear to be in manifest non-compliance with the sunrise registration conditions. In order to remedy this problem, Afilias has announced its intention to challenge such registrations through WIPO if they have not been challenged by others before the end of the Sunrise Challenge Period. This concerns, in particular, registrations where the alleged trademark registration does not exactly match the domain name registered, has a date after the 2 October 2000 cut-off, or a trademark number in an obviously wrong format. The domain names that are cancelled due to these Challenges will be returned to the pool of available domain names at a later time. Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jim Carey Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: .info If a name is already registered in the sunrise stage of .info - which we can see from the affilias whois - I guess there is no point in submitting that name through Landrush is there ? Any challenge that could be bought will not be resolved prior to Landrush ? as a PS: I note that a lot of the interesting names (eg local.info with trademark name of "Trademark local" and trademark # of "common law") and a lot of other generic or place/state names - money, football, wealth, nsw, qld, queensland, victoria, hotel, state, soccer.info etc etc etc have trademarks that are possibly a little suss (I checked all of the small number (25) I had put in personally and all had been taken in the sunrise and a lot appear, perhaps , a little suspect). Wonder how good Affilias' review will be - and whether these will find their way back into the pool at some time in the future - I certainly can't afford to challenge them :-) Jim Carey www.OZbcoz.com discount domain registration www.iluvoz.com affordable hosting services
