Domain investor, Page Howe, was visibly dejected today, after announcing the loss of gTLD domains to the Registry, Donuts, Inc.
Apparently, three full weeks after Page registered those domains at eNom, he received an email notifying him of a “mistake”:
“im speechless at the ineptitude of donuts.co , for those of you in the domain space, how would you like to get an email telling you names you had registered 3 weeks ago we being taken away. Welcome to my nightmare […] – we made a mistake and were taking the name back – hwo about YOU MADE A MISTAKE AND YOU PAY THE PENALTY AND CONSEQUENCES – how do i ever then know if i really have a domain name?”
This is really frustrating news about the particular domains registered by Page Howe; he raises a valid point: how late after registration can a Registry reclaim these domains citing an error?
We covered Page’s gTLD registrations last month; there was no information so far on which domains were reclaimed by Donuts, Inc.
Update: As stated by Paul Stahura of Donuts, Inc.: “There is a list of various governmental organizations (and their abbreviations – I think this one is short for “economic cooperation organization” or some such) that ICANN has temporarily restricted from registration pending outcome of their binding policy development process, and this “eco” string is on that list, and it slipped through the cracks on our reserved list.”
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