.info LL2 a farce!

[mole]

It has been observed in ICANN.ORG forums that the upcoming LL2 proceedings for the rereleased .info will turn out to be nothing more than an insider job because of closed, short queues and the prevalence of rogue registrars that are going this way.

Afilias states publicly that this will be a fair system for everyone. It is blatently clear that this will not. What do you think are your chances of getting anything of worth out of the 17,000+ names on offer?

 

[Marty]

.Info , .Biz or whatever LL is nerver fair to the small guy. Lottery would be the best, but then many federal laws would be broken and we would have a new LL over again. The system is not perfect.

 

[Tee]

Like in anything, your chances are good if you try really hard.

 

[Marty]

Hmmm, money talks .... walks

 

[Tee]

It's gonna be tough.

 

[mole]

Yes, but hasn't always been, Tee? Remember the almost a year of hard work of investigations and thousands of dollars committed that we put in preparation for the original dot info LL? I'm glad that is over, as I was lucky to get a 100% swipe rate on my industry set.

Domain speculation has turned very advanced and competitive today, good for the ocassional thrill but very bad if it is a must have name.

 

Nicemelons.info ?

 

[mole]

Yes, verynice.com

 

So you guys really think that 17000 names are going to go to one or two registrars with short lists?

Have you even read the way the queue will be processed at the Afilias website?

It's not a land grab, it's a randomised round-robin queue at the registry from a list of names submitted in advance by each registrar.

This looks to be like the cleanest LandRush process of them all to date.

-t

 

[mole]

Originally posted by thewitt

It's not a land grab, it's a randomised round-robin queue at the registry from a list of names submitted in advance by each registrar.

Randomised sounds fair, but is it? The unfairness of the closed list/short queue game was spotted a long time ago, protests were sent to Afilias and ICANN, to deaf ears.

The best solution for REAL randomisation is to collect all the applications from all registratrars and throw them all into one mixing pot, irregardless of queue. That way, no one can benefit from short queues.

Go watch the flash presentation at the link below.

http://www.lr2.info

Some of us have been following this fiasco unfold for over a year now, so I guess we know what we are talking about.

 

[dotsofdomains]

The first and only dot-info domain I have actually seen put to (quasi) commercial use and which made good sense is the NYC Transit's "mta.info" which replaced a governmental domain with way too many characters and way too many dots that no one in his or her right mind could or would ever remember.

Most everything without a dot-com is just that: without a dot-com.

--dod

 

[mole]

Many of the very best .info names are still locked because of tm fraud - thus the upcoming LL2.

Top names like media.info are still hanging in space with Yesnic, and massive collections of prime names with domain speculators.

My predictions are it will take at least another year before you really start to see .info seep into the internet addressing fabric. 2 years before .info becomes mainstream.

Check out sotd.info.