[NA-Discuss] When a Registry goes Rogue

[Danny Younger]

Hello John,

I flagged some of these issues and brought them to the attention of ICANN Staff in early June.  On August 13 I received a note from the Compliance Director that stated:  

"I am writing to inform you that ICANN is pursuing the concerns you raised below.  The matter below is being pursued concurrently with another Tralliance matter.  However, I wanted to assure you that the concerns you raised are being investigated."

And here we are at the tail end of the year with still no investigative report released.  Draw your own conclusions.


--- On Fri, 12/12/08, John L <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> From: John L <johnl at iecc.com>
> Subject: Re: [NA-Discuss] When a Registry goes Rogue
> To: "Danny Younger" <dannyyounger at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "NA Discuss" <na-discuss at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 9:49 AM
> > 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
> "More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom,
> revealingly.