It’s possibly worth noting that this is through Afilias, who seem to operate at least eleven other countries’ registries, including Australia’s (.au), and such

It’s possibly worth noting that this is through Afilias, who seem to operate at least eleven other countries’ registries, including Australia’s (.au), and such of the older-but-not-original gTLDs as .info and .aero. https://afilias.info/ https://afilias.info/ has a list. This seems to be to be a fairly rotten space, with power tending to consolidate around parties that have acted in fairly demonstrable bad faith.