The .info domains I listed were registered to Stephen Rumney in the original .info Sunrise
I have the entire list of .info Sunrise names and originally posted them on The Internet Challenge website when many of us were trying to draw attention to the fiasco (which Afilias Director Robert Connolly described as "an abomination") when he resigned in protest from the Board.
Obviously several of these names have since been re-registered in Landrush 2 after the names were challenged, but all these names were registered with fake Trademarks in the .info Sunrise. Although I've taken the website down (to avoid any legal problems) I still retain details of the phoney trademarks of Stephen Rumney.
Of course, he was only a small-time registrant compared to the almighty Konrad Plankenstein who registered over 4000 names in the same Sunrise process, all with fake trademark details. And hundreds were registered by Yesnic.
Most interesting of all was the case of William Lorenz of Strategic Domains. He applied for 93 domains through Hal Lubsen's DomainBank, leaving out the mandatory trademark data in 4 mandatory fields. DomainBank took his money, applied for the names in breach of the Registry and Registrar rules, and Afilias (whose CEO was Hal Lubsen... yeah, same guy) then went ahead and registered the 93 names.
Lorenz appealed for the applications to be cancelled when it was explained to him that he'd applied at the wrong time, but despite 23 e-mails both DomainBank and Afilias declined to delete the names. DomainBank had taken his money even though his names were ineligible. They then took the names away the next year and threatened court action if he did not pay a residue of money he owed them.
He had been charged thousands of dollars for a product that could not be supplied because it was in contravention of the Registry and Registrar rules.
You will perhaps NOT be surprised to learn that the registrar which took $500,000 from Konrad Plankenstein for 4981 domains was also a member of the registrar cartel which owns Afilias.
Yes, I remember Stephen Rumney and yes, all the names listed were registered to him as a result of false trademark details being submitted in the notorious .info sunrise.
Richard Henderson
www.atlarge.org