| Re: .US Outrage
Oh for crying out loud hiOsilver. Why the heck don't you just write me a pm and ask how it went before crying foul. You're active in the drop game and should know that the spoils go to the victor. No sneaky anything going on here.
Here's a little info for you (just in good spirit)
Neustar (the registry) had a schedule in place to release those names after 1 year from the opening registration period. The DoC refused to approve the release and instead delayed their response time and again while the registry continued to roll the anticipated release back month after month and then 1/4 after 1/4. Some of us continued to watch and wait and check and call. Some others got lolled to sleep.
Finally, the DoC ok'd the release of the city names and the release date was posted on the main site for about 3 months. Only those that kept checking and loading names to follow and purchasing $thousands in backorders were on top of this thing. The cities were released and I picked up quite a few as did a few others who were also watching. Iholdings picked up a few thousand for 1 company, but nothing fishy there and no inside info. America.us was dropped and picked up by one person even though I had 3 backorders at Pool, GD and Bluehill. That was evidently sold to Zou. Congrats.
The States were picked up by 2 people who were awake. I sold some of my drop slots to a couple others for their development and have plans for the development for a number of my other pickups. Not that it's anyones biz-ness. Some of the names you mention were part of a deal to Yak that I've held for years.
There is NO private firm or special treatment. ANYBODY who was on their toes could have jumped on this. Just ask fundraiser. He beat me to 4 States with either an enom script, or manual regging. You heard that right. There is NO violation of the public trust by the registry and was plenty of notice.
I do take issue with the insinuations. I'm one of the old hands here. I started the DNF$ symbol, the DNF$ Exchange and the Bank. I've had thousands of domain sales and purchases with a very large number of members here. Next time please just ask before dragging me into some nasty accusations.
Any more questions while I'm in a good mood?
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