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[Kenny]

Almost 1/4 of the NNN.us were reg'd by a man in Switzerland?
Well not just any man, but in fact....

Registrant ID: GODA-04640090
Registrant Name: Ives Leutenegger
Registrant Organization: ATHOME Switzerland LLC
Registrant Address1: Mattenbachstrasse 38
Registrant City: Winterthur
Registrant State/Province: ZH
Registrant Postal Code: 8400
Registrant Country: Switzerland
Registrant Country Code: CH
Registrant Phone Number: +41.522337717
Registrant Facsimile Number: +41.522337716
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registrant Application Purpose: P1
Registrant Nexus Category: C32/CH

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Oh and yes, they remain in his portfolio.

This isnt to spark debate over where he is from as much as how did he grab 22.5% of the NNN's in one day?

Some veterans may remember in 2002
Harvard conducted these studies:
Survey of Usage of the .US TLD

Number of .US Registrations / Proportion of .US Registrations
(among .US registrations with all contacts outside the US)
US Citizen 3392 / 15.6%
Permanent Resident of US 751 / 3.5%
US Organization 1373 / 6.3%
Foreign Entity or Organization with Bona Fide US Presence,
Regularly Engaging in Lawful Activities in US 12766 / 58.7%
Office or Other Facility in the US 2848 / 13.1%
No nexus data available in WHOIS 609 / 2.8%

Thats a lot of foreign/ bona fida. I wonder if the %'s have changed much, the quantity has for sure.

.US Registrations to Non-US Registrants, with domain listings
Silverback, #1 in this cat went for the pr0n it appears.
I ran his list, almost all available now.... the list looks like it was assembled by very "anxious" young men.

To the other extreme, this guy reg'd some beaut's of which only one is avail "newgroups.us", and I'm guessing that was a accidental typo. He sold off eight (highlited) which as you can see probably covered his investment, many years of re-reg'n and at the very least, a new pair of shoes:

abortion.us, agents.us, animals.us, animations.us, anorexia.us, areacodes.us, astrology.us, babynames.us, backgrounds.us, bedandbreakfast.us, betting.us, bikinis.us, britney.us, cameras.us, carparts.us, carrental.us, cartoons.us, cats.us, cdcovers.us, chatrooms.us, cheatcodes.us, cheats.us, checks.us, clipart.us, clothing.us, codes.us, computergames.us, computerhardware.us, contactlenses.us, contacts.us, cracks.us, cruises.us, curling.us, death.us, debt.us, decorating.us, dictionary.us, diets.us, digitalcameras.us, disease.us, diseases.us, dogs.us, downloads.us, dragons.us, dresses.us, ecard.us, ecards.us, electronics.us, engines.us, entertainment.us, eroticstories.us, euthanasia.us, exchangerates.us, familytree.us, farms.us, firsttimehomebuyer.us, fishing.us, freeclipart.us, freedownloads.us, freegames.us, freegreetingcards.us, freemusic.us, funeralhomes.us, gambling.us, gardening.us, genealogy.us, greetingcards.us, hairstyles.us, healthinsurance.us, hockey.us, homebusiness.us, homebuying.us, homedecorating.us, homeevaluation.us, homeimprovement.us, homeinsurance.us, horoscopes.us, housebymouse.us, househunting.us, houseplans.us, housesforsale.us, humor.us, hunting.us, joke.us, jokes.us, laser.us, lease.us, lifeinsurance.us, lingerie.us, lovepoems.us, magazines.us, millionaire.us, mlslistings.us, mobilehomes.us, monsters.us, motors.us, musicdownloads.us, musiclyrics.us, new.us, newcars.us, newgroups.us, nexthome.us, nosyneighbor.us, paint.us, peoplesearch.us, pics.us, poems.us, quotations.us, quote.us, realestateagents.us, realestatelistings.us, realtors.us, recipe.us, recipes.us, recreation.us, relocation.us, resume.us, resumes.us, roadmaps.us, roms.us, screensavers.us, sexualhealth.us, shoes.us, smallappliances.us, songlyrics.us, studios.us, tattoos.us, televisions.us, usedcar.us, usedcars.us, videogames.us, videos.us, wallpaper.us, wholesale.us, womenshealth.us, worldmap.us, zipcodes.us

Nice list there Mr. Lucero... and you are... Canadian?
To be fair, the company is located in Niagara Falls now.

.US Registrations by Top Registrants

Top Registrants being the operative words here kids.
Dotster sitting on top of this list at the time, but as I scan down the list... I dont recognize very many of these Reg Houses (Registrant organization). I do recognize a couple of Registrant Sir names however. Not to imply anything directly at anyone, but I wonder if just one or two of these companies were formed with self serving agendas.


I guess my point in all this boils down to...
What the Hello Hana happened?
Who was in control of the process?
Was this brother in law heaven?
Between the "New" Reg Houses, and that stat I showed up the page a bit, the Bona Fido's snatching up 12766 names which was 58.7%, and at least a couple of those could be considered "Premium", the regular Joe didnt stand a chance, what do you think?

Any verifiable updated information or stats would be welcome.

Peace,
Cyberian

 

[name idol]

i think it would have been normal renewal fees, i dont know exactly when the $80 fee kicks in but i think it is later than then

Thanks irishmat, in that case your theory above must be correct (as you said, he's just teasing us!)

 

[irishmat]

yep i know for a fact some people manipulate tdnam like that to get exposure for their names

if anyone does want an NNN.us or two shoot me a pm, reseller pricing

 

[Lasher]

Bringing lots of exposure to 200 .US names with whois data in Switzerland isn't a good idea, this was probably more oversight on not renewing them in time.

 

[fonzie_007]

Domains are $80 to renew when they are in redemption. All expired domains at TDNAM are in redemption. I doubt GD gave this guy a discount.

Maybe the people at Neustar took note of this guy and will take appropriate action...

 

[italiandragon]

maybe he died or was in the hospital?

 

[Sam]

Hmmm , time to call one of the VPs of neustar, maybe she can help

 

[Ives Leutenegger]

Clarifications

Hi,

anybody can call Neustar if he or she wants. It is a fact that my company is registered in Delaware with a foreign address which is absolutely legitimate! I just want to remember that another Nexus status only requires a business relationship with an US company, which seems a bit questionable...

Please see the following discussion for more information:

http://www.namepros.com/dot-us/333429-200-nnn-us-tdnam-now-buy.html

I can confirm that I'm neither dead or in hospital!

Thank you all for your interest.

Best regards,

Ives Leutenegger

 

[airwav]

Hi,

anybody can call Neustar if he or she wants. It is a fact that my company is registered in Delaware with a foreign address which is absolutely legitimate! I just want to remember that another Nexus status only requires a business relationship with an US company, which seems a bit questionable...

Your company is not in good standing.

File Number: 3512996 Incorporation Date / Formation Date: 04/11/2002
(mm/dd/yyyy)
Entity Name: ATHOME SWITZERLAND LLC
Entity Kind: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Entity Type: GENERAL
Residency: DOMESTIC State: DE
Status: CEASED GOOD STANDING Status Date: 06/01/2006

 

[Lasher]

Your company is not in good standing.

File Number: 3512996 Incorporation Date / Formation Date: 04/11/2002
(mm/dd/yyyy)
Entity Name: ATHOME SWITZERLAND LLC
Entity Kind: LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Entity Type: GENERAL
Residency: DOMESTIC State: DE
Status: CEASED GOOD STANDING Status Date: 06/01/2006

No big deal, probably just means he forget to file an annual report. I had the same problem with my own corporation in Florida, moved and never received their notifications. I was "delinquent" for over 2 years. After discovering this on a Saturday and sweating it all weekend, all it took to fix it was a phone call and $240 filing fees to bring it up to date.

 

[airwav]

No big deal, probably just means he forget to file an annual report. I had the same problem with my own corporation in Florida, moved and never received their notifications. I was "delinquent" for over 2 years. After discovering this on a Saturday and sweating it all weekend, all it took to fix it was a phone call and $240 filing fees to bring it up to date.

I think it "might" be a big deal. Check out the .us Nexus Requirements.
My understanding is that a foreign enitity or organization must have a bona fide presence in the US. The Nexus Agreement states a bona fide presense as:

Regularly performs lawful activities within the United States related to the purposes for which the enity or organization is constituted (e.g. selling goods or providing services to customers, conducting regular training activities, attending conferences), provided such activities are not conducted solely or primarily to permit to register for a usTDL domain name and are lawful under the laws and regulations of the United States and satisfy policies for the usTDL, including policies approved and/or mandated by the DoC

Even if he pays his back taxes, I think that because of the status of his LLC at the time of any nnn.us sales he was not compliant, IMHO.

 

[Lasher]

Even if he pays his back taxes, I think that because of the status of his LLC at the time of any nnn.us sales he was not compliant, IMHO.

You might be right but I'll take my chances. There is no precedent I am aware of where a name has been taken from a US citizen because it was purchased from someone else who was "non compliant" at the time. I actually bought a name from someone last year who was nexus spot-checked and needed to offload it. I had to fax my ID and a statement that I am indeed a US citizen to Neustar, all was fine after that.

Don't misunderstand me, I would like to see .US only registered by people with a legitimate use and not a shell company for registration purposes, but this is the domain business, isn't going to happen. We also cannot assume that applies to this company anyway.

 

[Ives Leutenegger]

Clarification

Hi all,

I registered the area code domains in .us because I wanted to do base a business on it, create jobs and later move to the US for that purpose. I do not grab domain names, I selected them specifically and only registered area codes in .us. I believe it is unfair to say that I have garbed them for speculation or any other purpose.

As I said I now sell them because I came to the conclusion that the project is not worth the effort.

I have the domains for five years and never got contacted by anyone...

Please contact me directly if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Ives

 

[airwav]

You might be right but I'll take my chances. There is no precedent I am aware of where a name has been taken from a US citizen because it was purchased from someone else who was "non compliant" at the time.

There is precedent. :td:

I would love to grab a few of these names as well, but I think there are issues.

 

[Lasher]

The precedent was someone who had already been contacted and the name was in Nexus review. We have Ives on record above as stating that he has never been contacted and that is good enough for me.

I purchased 4 of them yesterday and they are now in my GoDaddy account, so now the proud new owner of 301.us, 401.us, 701.us and 901.us

Thanks for a smooth transaction Ives.

 

[irishmat]

The precedent was someone who had already been contacted and the name was in Nexus review. We have Ives on record above as stating that he has never been contacted and that is good enough for me.

I purchased 4 of them yesterday and they are now in my GoDaddy account, so now the proud new owner of 301.us, 401.us, 701.us and 901.us

Thanks for a smooth transaction Ives.

nice buys at that price!

 

[fonzie_007]

Ives,

Did GD give you a discount on your renewals? Otherwise $80/domain is pretty steep to renew ~ 200 domains.

 

[Kenny]

Hi all,

I registered the area code domains in .us because I wanted to do base a business on it, create jobs and later move to the US for that purpose. I do not grab domain names, I selected them specifically and only registered area codes in .us. I believe it is unfair to say that I have garbed them for speculation or any other purpose.

As I said I now sell them because I came to the conclusion that the project is not worth the effort.

I have the domains for five years and never got contacted by anyone...

Please contact me directly if you have any questions.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Ives

Ives,

Thank you for weighing in on this thread and clearing up some of the questions and speculation.
Good luck with your sale.

As to TDNAM putting domains up for auction before they are in redemption, this will happen and I went through it.
They will cherry pick strong names while still in grace.

I'm on your posted list there 3 times Ken. I'm 100% US and everything I did was completely legit and just involved some brainz, money and hard work. Having put in months of effort, it kinda ticked me off to see some of the scams pulled by both individuals and registrars. I have yet to see a land rush that wasn't gamed by ICANN accredited registrars and some of the same people getting awards or doing keyword speeches at the domainer conferences.

Lay the questions on me, I'd be glad to answer what I can. What do you want to know?

hehe, I know you were, Doc. I did mention some of our friends were on that list. I was wondering which would step up and give a fair accounting of how the process works.
Needless to say, I am not surprised to see you in this thread, palms up and willing to help clear some confusion.
Thank you. :tu:

It is a mystery to most of us how one positions oneself to such an advantage and these would be my questions to you, sir.

What is the actual criteria to be allowed at the front of the line?
Is it a "Members Only", insiders perk reserved for the big portfolios and pioneers of the industry?
Or simply a well guarded loophole and a matter of filing out the proper paperwork?

Who makes the final call on this?

We do see many of the same people (or corporations) in similar spots when checking previous Sunrise and Landrush in other ext's.

As I mentioned already, the student that compiled the .US facts was involved with The Top Level Domain Evaluation Project and also investigated .BIZ (here) and Registrations in Open ccTLDs focusing on CC, .TV, and .WS.

For those of you who haven't already, I suggest having a good look.
You may or may not be surprised, but it is an interesting read.

All in all, the final accounting on the process seems to have some questionable actions involving certain individuals, repeated time and again.


or not.....


Cy

 

[airwav]

The precedent was someone who had already been contacted and the name was in Nexus review. We have Ives on record above as stating that he has never been contacted and that is good enough for me.

Ives if you would be found found non-compliant of nexus status, would you refund monies on these purchases of domains through GoDaddy?

 

[fonzie_007]

TDNAM will refund anyone who bids and wins a domain but does not receive the domain (e.g. if the original registrant redeems).

 

[airwav]

TDNAM will refund anyone who bids and wins a domain but does not receive the domain (e.g. if the original registrant redeems).

Is that through the auction only?