Joe Baptista wrote:
I do care - thats true. Well - I want to make sure ICANN and IANA are constantly reminded
It's not ICANN's business, IMO, except perhaps to have an FAQ or other entry on the website of the effect "beware imposters". Otherwise ICANN owes the "victims" of this scheme nothing. It shouldn't have taken much due diligence for the German school to see that the TLDs being promoted by INIAC are not reachable through commonly-configured DNS. That they got involved suggests that greed trumped common sense and maybe it's not as elite a school as it thinks it is....
Also there are many poor victims to come as long as ICANN and IANA allow their trademarks and brands to be used this way.
But INIAC never represented that they were an ICANN contracted party. They simply said that they considered ICANN to have met their requirements.
I want those victims to see that I tried my best to get ICANNs attention on this.
I want them to have their collective heads examined. It is incomprehensible to me that anyone who would get involved in the tricky, hyper-aggressive field of domain selling (let alone TLD selling!) would not have done at least minimal research. - Evan