Tony Owen wrote:
> Do registrars have an unfair advantage when speculating on dropped names?
> 
> If so, why are they allowed this advantage?

That's like saying 'why do registars get direct access to the registry?'

Why shouldn't we?

Anyway, whether you like it or not, I'm not going to tell you how it's 
done, you'll just have to stay up at night panicing over the possibility 
that the evil registrars might have access to something you don't.

As far as Enetica is concerned, we do not register domains from the drop 
list for ourselves unless they are specifically applicable to us and our 
services. The drop list is there for our customers. Registrar's 
activities are also restricted by 'frontrunning' clauses in our auDA 
contracts.

Regards,
Bennett.