I'm glad it wasn't just me... >From Directi:
After considerable discussion with all our customers we have decided to retract the extension to our bidding deadline. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 9:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Registrar extends bidding on .info LR2 weeks PAST notification! Is it just me, or is there something VERY wrong about this? ST The best thing to do: Write to Afilias a protest note. Ask Afilias to reject all submissions from Directi. [EMAIL PROTECTED] A lots of people are complaining, but none of them seems to be acting. (I just wrote an email to Afilias) This is in my opnion clearly again the Afilias-Registrar contracts. A registrar is not allowed to register only on behalf off himself. Thats what directi is doing. - doing a 'market research' which names are 'high value' - trying to register the results of the market research - selling the successful registration (auction in July) There is another reason why everybody should protest against this practice by sending an email to Afilias: Already now .info is no more very attractiv for webmasters because of the numerous problems with transfers. Myself I had probelms with 4 registrars which are refusing let transfer away a .info to Tucows. And Afilias support is always very friendly, but they do not act. (they refused to do a registry transfer to another registrar in all cases) If Afilias will tolerate all these bad practices, .info will end as a non important domain name like .cc And you will loose all your small investments you have done by reservating a few .info for yourself. (I suppose every member of this list will a 5-10 nice .info resevred for future use) Matthias
