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I've noticed the same thing Dan. Though look and feel is subjective I find the Afilias site confusing and unprofessional. A few other things about or via the Afilias site... They should read ICANNWatch (more often or closely). Bob Connelly is still
listed as a Board member. Then again I guess the resignation is pending. Still, they should read ICANNWatch (more often and closely). They say the Sunrise period will begin October 2, 2000. The roll-out of the .info TLD will commence with a Sunrise Period whereby trademark holders as of October 2, 2000 will be allowed to register their respective marks in the .info TLD. I can see how a trademark holder from after that date (till now for that matter) could read that incorrectly. Ya, who am I to comment on grammar?They seem to have their own interpretation of what constitutes ICANN Policy, or pre-registration, or both. In keeping with ICANN's policy, Afilias is not accepting pre-registrations in the .info TLD.
Still these sites are better than those of Michael Palage, Afilias Policy Consultant, and Afilias Registrar (OK, that may not cause too many conflicts at home, but a WIPO panelist too...and Chair of ICANN's DNSO Registrars Constituency, who wants a firewall between functions). Afilias seems to prefer those with many hats like Board Member Ken Stubbs. You can attempt to recover (one of) Palage's Afilias password(s), or another registrar's here:
choose infonetworks. From the dropbox I mean, that's not the password, I hope. No, I won't explain how to be a Hax0r. Finally he uses palage.com for email, but it doesn't resolve via HTTP, though there's nothing wrong with that. Why do I pick on Michael Palage? His infonetworks and ipwarehouse sites still look like this, and this. Guess I'll continue to point that out every week or so till they're changed. Then I'll start pointing to the earlier archived hacks. I have one and would post it here but the effect would be lost. This doesn't inspire too much confidence. But the real reason I point out these sites is that he, arguably more than anyone else, is responsible for ICANN's Sunrise concept. Like his sites it isn't dynamic, doesn't work right, is a waste of time, and doesn't take into account the end user. Oh, and did I say I find the Afilias site confusing and unprofessional? Hmmm, there used to be a time they said people looked like their pets. -g
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