So are you saying America.us dropped randomly. It seems there should have been a public notice on the drop time.
Also, assuming Blueberry Hill may be hired for a larger job like that but as you said they would still need to know specific drop times and dates so how could they have monitored 24X7 from Dec 15 thru Dec 22? This all seems quite odd to say the least.
Another issue is why so many other great names dropped at odd dates, both early and late? It seems since these were held in the public trust the registry is responsible for public awareness and issuing notice of dates and strictly adhering to the schedues.
Basically 3 domainers (possibly 4) have become overnight millionaires over this.
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Originally Posted by fundraiser I too contacted Blueberry Hill and while at the time they did not offer .us drops as part of their individual name catching service, they were willing to try to catch some .us names but required a minimum of a couple hundred names and also needed to be told when to try. You'll find a number of people make deals with registrars to grab names. Nothing unusual.
The city/local names dropped on November 10. Some of the names that did not have a specific government entity use also dropped. America.us was sitting available for registration by anyone for a few hours before someone realized it had dropped along with the city and local names. It has since transferred hands.
All of the names on the list went to pending delete on the whois before being released. Why that wasn't noticed by the big players, both individuals and firms, is beyond me. I do feel fortunate to have noticed. |
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quote=fundraiser. It could not have been more fair.
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Does not sound too fair when there was little public notice, the drop dates were impossible to find when I looked during several visits to the site on and before Dec 15, and to make matters worse the top names all appear to have dropped both early and later than the hard to find schedule page indicated, as much as one month early to 7 days late!
What could be more unfair than all of that?