Provisional Application Period (PAP) commences illegally, led by Alexander Ramsay and his lies
Summary: Contrary to what Team UPC firms keep saying (aided by the EPO, run by their cronies, Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos), the UPCA isn't legally tenable and UPC can therefore not commence; they're totally faking it, hoping they won't be obstructed if they start it illegally and convince companies to invest in an unconstitutional framework
They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
If even one media outlet told you in 2010 that Microsoft would fall from 100% (of Web requests) to about 1 in 8 Web requests, you'd probably struggle to believe it