Sipence & ENom register .INFO counterpart for all their registrants
Here’s where I came across the story: Netcraft: Sipence Grabs 1 Million .info Domains, Sparking Controversy .
Some forum posts
first lead me to believe, that could be a free gift to the registants
done as part of an Afilias promotion. But why would Enom be registering
those names under a different tag, if they are planning to give those
domains to their registrants for free?
There’s also another problem. In order to register a domain name, you
have to agree to a registration agreement. It seems Enom has agreed to
that contract on behalf of their registrants, who did not know anything
about this until now.
To really find out what their plan is, I was trying to locate some of
those domains and check the whois information vs. the .COM counterpart
of the domain. However I have not yet been able to find at least one of
those .INFO domains registered under the Sipence tag. No luck so far, I
will keep my eyes open an post updates here.