[Asiaplay]

Just thought I should post on this thread again to warn members - as I now have a personal experience which suggests this is all true.
Note: I was awarded a couple of domains without contest - the other few went to auction (and I was invited for auctions for a couple of domains - which I watched on a daily basis).

As everyone knows, I signed up for a handful of .asia domains and some of these ended up going to / went to auction.
The strange thing is that "sex.asia" which I pre-registered (more out of interest to watch the live auction, than to win it), I was NOT EVEN INVITED to the auction for.
Also, the date suggested for the auction (one anticipated auction date for this domain) was suddenly rushed forward by a month - to my surprise the auction was over a month before it was supposed to even happen!

So this makes me wonder was there even an auction - even though this is supposed to be the highest price auction held by .asia so far!!!

Basically this tells me there was either no "real" auction for sex.asia domain or the auction was controlled and done outside the rules that were presented.
I contacted the auditors of the pre-registration process on this issue and they told me they are not the auditors for the domain auction process (so they are unable to assist).

This begs the question of who is auditing the domain auctions for .asia - so far as I can see they are not being audited and the .asia auction process is one big scam!
Needless to say, I am not bidding on any auctions at all now (as with the bidders hidden, I suspect strongly that any competing bids are fake as well).

So yes, ask yourselves very carefully if ever investing in the 2nd hand market for .asia - are you investing based on false inflated information.

Just thought I should raise this issue, so members here are aware of deep and severe problems which exist for .asia registrar (and the level of trust any domain owner should have in dealing with them or their domains).

Cheers and all the best, Asiaplay