Reservation of Rights
4.10.1 Afilias is not obligated to enter select or approve any Applicant or Proposal. Afilias is not liable for any costs incurred by any Applicant in the preparation and submission of a Proposal(s) or otherwise in connection with the Program.
4.10.2 Without limitation, Afilias reserves the right to:
(i) Select or accept any Proposal in its sole discretion;
(ii) Reject, decline or not accept any and all Proposals for any reason, with or without explanation;
(iii) Request additional information or clarification from an Applicant regarding any Proposal
(iv) Conduct investigative assessment of the Applicant’s representations in a Proposal;
(v) Rescind the Selection of a Proposal for any reason, with or without explanation;
(vi) Cancel or rerun the Program;
(vii) Remedy technical errors in these policies or in the Program;
(xiii) Negotiate with any, all, or none of the Applicants;
(ix) Waive, in its sole discretion, any requirements of the Program; and/or
(x) Cancel, suspend or re-appropriate the Domain and release the Domain or allocate it to another Applicant should the representations made in the original Applicant’s Proposal not be met or were found to be false

Is cowboys.info on the list? I suspect they are keeping that for themselves.

That’s about right.

Yeah…we are all gonna get rich. I can see it now….swimming pools….movie stars. Yeah, man we gonna be rich!!!!

After the “Sunrise Period” of .info domains, trademark owners had the opportunity to file a challenge against the allocation of their trademark to other people. In 2001/early 2002, the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center examined these challenges, and in some cases decided to transfer these domains to the challenger.

Since then, the challengers legitimately owned these domain names.

8 years(!) later, Afilias is claiming that WIPO did not properly examine whether the challengers met all requirements for a Sunrise allocation and deactivated these domains. Now, Afilias is reallocating them in a very intransparent process: everyone can apply for these domains, providing he pays a non-refundable fee of $250 and hands in a business plan. This reallocation process will reward Afilias millions of dollars – at the expense of us, the legitimate domain name owners!

The prevailers of the WIPO dispute resolution process – who have legitimately owned these domains since 8 years, who have been paying fees for these domain names since 8 years, who have developed our domains since 8 years, who have gone through a WIPO Challenge procedure – will not accept this reallocation!

We are currently collecting addresses of all affected domain name owners to file a class action against Afilias.

Should you also be affected by Afilias illicit domain name reallocation, please send your contact information to afilias.class.action.lawsuit@gmail.com

Please, .info

Cut me a break.

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