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Originally Posted by hiOsilver
There is certainly the appearance of an inside deal here. The notice on the neustar website was really not there at all. According to Ron Jackson, month after month, the release notice would be incremented by a month, lulling those interested into believing that these domains would never be released.
For hundreds of these domains, collectively worth many millions of dollars to be directed to one person's hands with no notice is scandalous. Do you think that the US Dept of Commerce would agree to give this valuable property to a single person with no reasonable public notice? This has nothing to do with a few people feeling like that were left out.
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What is outrageous is your accusation that there is the appearance of an inside deal.
I registered Washington.us, Illinois.us, Minnesota.us, RhodeIsland.us and a few lesser but nice names off of the list so "one person" is not quite accurate. The elaborate domain name acquisition tool I used was the human mind. I went to the home page of the registry and clicked the link to the reserve page and saw the release dates. I watched, waited, remained patient and then I hand-registered them at Enom. I missed a name I wanted when the first release occurred in November so I made a deal for it.
If you feel you've missed out on something, I suggest you do the same.
On a positive note, I do like your appraisal of the value of the names.