Does it strike anyone as odd that only they bid on those obviously valuable domain names? I wouldn’t be surprised if other registrants of the domain did not get a notification about the start or end date of the auction, which is how they came to be the only ones “in the know” of when the auction started/finished.

It is ridiculous to think that under normal competitive conditions that no other bidders would be willing to bid greater than $10 for those domain names! Give us a break!

I am still amazed the Mr Roecker continues to make all these bold claims about using inside auction infromation and has yet to show even ONE auction that Dtake Ventures won or even participated in where inside auction information can be demonstrated. The reason he has not shown this ie because it does not exist and frankly I will allow the legal commnuity to decide what to do about his false allegations.

David asked to confirm the relationship between Drake Ventures and Pool and I can confirm as I have said previously, Drake Ventures is a customer of Pool.com. We provided domain acquisition services for them during the Sunrise Phase of the release of the EU tld as we did for hundreds of other customers with trademark rights. Drake Ventures is aware of the allegations placed by Mr Roecker and in the interest of refuting these allegations provided permission to release specific statistical data on competitive auctions where they were a participant that clearly shows niether they nor I could possibly be accused of bid rigging.

Even more compelling, the 3 domains that Drake Ventures won in auction (you can find this information out easily yourself by going through the list published by Mr Ruecker and comparing to the closed auctions report available at the DotAsia Registry site) were: lotto.asia, dating.asia and bet.asia. Each of these auctions closed with a winning bid of $10! Nobody submitted a competitive bid! These are the ONLY auctions Drake has won to date.

Again, I am appalled at the falsehoods being presented by Mr Ruecker and can only hope he will retract his claims.

As for the “many premium domain names” owned by Drake, I can only comment on those that received competitive applications by the registry and thus resulted in an auction. You may all recall that if a domain only received a single application during the Sunrise period, then it would be awarded to that single applicant provided the prior rights claim was validated by the registry’s validation agent. If any of you have questions on any one specific domain I would suggest you direct your inquiry to the registry.

I have been actively purchasing .ASIA domain names during the auction period and have been very surprised at some of the prices that have eliminated my final bidding price.

I have also seen many questionable things while participating in the auction process.

Is there one unique user name or multiple that are winning the names mentioned?

In my view, that is not correct, there are some questions about:

What about Throne, Drake and the Domain drakedomainscorp.com? As everybody here can proof by using public whois-services, this domain is owned by Richard Schreier. See also printout of the irish registries office IRO about ownership of Drake Ventures Ltd. (if you do not believe: for a small fee the IRO will send it to you). See also printout of the australian registries office ASIC about the ownership of Throne Ventures Pty Ltd. (if you do not believe: for a small fee the ASIC will send it to you). See also todays whois of http://www.drakedomainscorp.com (older whois on our website). See also todays whois of throneventures.eu
Who is Shanna Laughton? As you can see in the published annual report of Drake Ventures Limited, she is the mangaging director of drake ventures limited. She is from Ottawa, Canada like pool.com is. And there seems to be an oddly connection to the pool-parent momentous as you can see here. And Drake Ventures Limited is the owner of Throne.
Trademark pool owned by Drake. We found a disput for pool.eu (ADR) from drake ventures limited. Why is Drake the holder of the trademark “pool”?

You will find links to the above facts on
http://www.dotasia-complot.org/article77.html

Also, if they lost 18 of the 21 domains they went for, how did they acquire the others (Drake ventures clearly own many premium domain names)

Thank you

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