[NA-Discuss] When a Registry goes Rogue

[John L]

> Subsequently, the globe.com sold out to Labitrav LLC which then changed its corporate name to Labigroup Holdings LLC.

All of these recent changes at .TRAVEL are just paper shuffling, since 
these companies are all controlled by the same guy, Michael Egan, who made 
a lot of money in the car rental business and has been losing it on a 
bunch of impressively bad Internet businesses ever since.  I think that 
theglobe.com, which ejected Tralliance seconds before it went down the 
drain still holds the record for the largest CAN SPAM fine ever paid for 
illegal spamming.

I agree that Tralliance needs some serious supervision from ICANN.  In my 
personal experience, when I registered airinfo.travel for my little air 
ticket web site, one of their salesmen immediately wrote and tried to 
upsell me a bunch of other domains including skyauction.travel, an obvious 
squat.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
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