VeriSign registrar is holding about half a million expired domains like this. their illegal cybersquatting is covered by the registry, ICANN and US DOC. one hand washes the other and money is flowing abundantly to the insiders. the consumers and domain registrants are paying the bill.
kind regards philippe ICANN and Verisign in Alliance to Reinstate De-facto NSI Dot Com Monopoly in Return For Financial Support of ICANN http://www.cookreport.com/10.02.shtml http://mediafilter.org/caq/internic Every president since Nixon has had at least one SAIC insider in his cabinet. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/03_23_98-1.htm ICANN Closes Most Popular Comment Forum; Auerbach sues ICANN http://ICANNwatch.org/ --- *** --- >Nearly 2 months ago, I sent the message below (to the ga list) about a >domain that expired long ago, but was still in the "Unpaid Names Dept" of >Register.COM. In the mean time I've contacted Register.COM, who was >hoarding the domain name number9.org, and was able to register it throught >them. (See their Whois since March 21 I am the registrant.) > >So if you want an unpaid name of Register.COM contact them. All it took >me, was an email, to which they replied to call them, which I did. Now >this is not proper procedure, I know. In fact it stinks. But isn't proper >procedure very much out of favour in ICANN since shortly before Accra? > >I am sorry. Sarcastic mood tonight. > >---------- Forwarded message ---------- >Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 23:10:17 +0100 (CET) >From: Marc Schneiders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Registrar Domain Hoarding? > >What should I think of the data below? When is this domain going to be >released? This century? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[...] > Domain Name: NUMBER9.ORG > Registrar: REGISTER.COM, INC. > Whois Server: whois.register.com > Referral URL: http://www.register.com > Name Server: DNS7.REGISTER.COM > Name Server: DNS8.REGISTER.COM > Updated Date: 04-jan-2002 > >>>> Last update of whois database: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 05:15:20 EST <<< > >[...] > >You may be able to buy this domain name through http://www.afternic.com/offer > > > Organization: > register.com > Unpaid Names Department-R > 575 Eighth Avenue > New York, NY 10018 > US > Phone: 212-798-9200 > Fax..: 212-594-9876 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Registrar Name....: Register.com > Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com > Registrar Homepage: http://www.register.com > > Domain Name: NUMBER9.ORG > > Created on..............: Mon, Feb 21, 2000 > Expires on..............: Wed, Feb 21, 2001 > Record last updated on..: Sat, Jan 05, 2002 > > Administrative Contact: > register.com > Unpaid Names Department-R > 575 Eighth Avenue > New York, NY 10018 > US > Phone: 212-798-9200 > Fax..: 212-594-9876 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Technical Contact: > register.com > Unpaid Names Department-R > 575 Eighth Avenue > New York, NY 10018 > US > Phone: 212-798-9200 > Fax..: 212-594-9876 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Zone Contact: > register.com > Unpaid Names Department-R > 575 Eighth Avenue > New York, NY 10018 > US > Phone: 212-798-9200 > Fax..: 212-594-9876 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Domain servers in listed order: > > DNS7.REGISTER.COM 216.21.234.74 > DNS8.REGISTER.COM 209.67.50.34 > >Register your domain name at http://www.register.com > >You may be able to buy this domain name through http://www.afternic.com/offer
