Originally Posted by domainmonster_m

Hi Rob

Until such time as the relevant brand owner wants that name, they are premium I'm afraid. No matter how moral we as a registrar about TM's there a lot of customers that do buy up TM's and are willing to pay a premium to do so. Its not our job to play sheriff, but supply the market with their demand. The registry's don't' hold them back at source and do allow them to auction at high value during TLD launches so the channel (eg: registrars) will of course do the same.

The important part is that we don't go about acquiring TM's and never will. We literally get stuck with these names, recognise that someone will pay a premium (Appreciate you guys won't, but we have them in the first place right!), so offer them back up for sale until such time as they drop. Any TM names will never renew with us, just see out the current shelf life.

In terms of the parking on these. They absolutely shouldn't be parked as TM's and I'll get this resolved. I can't speak specifically for SEDO, but its a key requirement of most ad partners, so we need to get this addressed. I would imagine their Name Servers have just remained un-touched since fraud or title passed over to us, so they all need reviewing and this will be done by our team early next week. We need to smarten up our process of placing them in premium domicile and this will come shortly.

Hope that helps some more! Rgds, Matt