| Re: .US Outrage
According to important conversations I have had with some of the key players and what I personally have seen it appears some names like America.us (the best of the best) and other big ones dropped EARLY on Nov 16. Other key names like the state reserves dropped LATE on Dec 22 thought they were scheduled (according to the webpage I first read on Dec 22) to drop on Dec 15. I did visit the site several times on and before Dec 15 and did NOT locate the page with the schedule after much time on the site looking for it. I finally ran into the page on Dec 22 late night after most of the good names were gone earlier that day (about 7 hrs before my visit) and Nov 16 and oher dates too.
It seems one player and dnf member got hundreds possibly thousands of great ones, perhaps 95% or more of the really good ones, includig great acronyms like FDIC.us for example, and loads of others.
During a phone conversation with a key player it was said a so called private firm managed to reg most all of the names and then sold some of them to 2 other key players and kept the rest for himself. That is basically all I know.
I agree there should have been better public notice and also agree the schedule should have been easy to find and made more noticable and also the time tabe should have been adhered to and not done any early or late drops.
P.S. A mysterious oddity is why are so MANY of the great us names reg'd at a place called Blueberry Hill? I called Blueberry Hill and they said they do NOT grab us drops, only biz and info? It is also interesting Blueberry Hill was working with Neustar as a subcontractor a few yrs ago regarding the Kids domains according to a Google cache. |