> How can this be a blessing ? I would like to clearly understand how our
> orders would compete with other registrars that have submitted the same
> domains, at a date *AFTER* we saved them in OpenSRS ?
It sounds as if you are saying the sole reason a customer might choose to do
business with you is because of your 'time to registry' with their .ca name
pre-registration. This suggests a slightly impoverished understanding of
*how* pre-registrations work. So long as the name is submitted to CIRA
before November 1st, the registrant is in no danger of losing the name. RSPs
are possibly in danger of losing business *if* the registrant has
'pre-registered' their name with more than one company. Given the nature of
pre-registrations, this would seem foolhardy.
> Can you please describe for us all what is the criteria guiding your
> processing of orders ?
First come, first serve, once we are done testing. We are testing with names
that were volenteered by RSPs.
> We have orders dating back to sept. 18 and none has been submitted. NONE.
Again, this is not such terrible news. The names are already owned by the
registrants, and pre-registration will happen before November 1st.
> Why ?
As we've explained, because CIRA has been plagued with bugs, many of which
we've pointed out; we do not want our RSP to deal with the support headache
of tens or hundreds (as the case may be) of annoyed registrants who got
caught in the middle of a broken process.
>Customers aren't stupid and will figure out that OpenSRS is holding
> their order. Why will they come to us in light of this !?!?!
Holding their order to what end? I'll go so far as to answer; holding their
order to make sure that the process we send them through is as sound as
possible, start to finish.
Ken
> Fabian Rodriguez - Associate Director, Outsourcing and Business
> development
> Toxik Technologies Inc. - www.Toxik.com - (514)528-6945 x1
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Toxik - Fabian
> Rodriguez
> Sent: October 11, 2000 5:23 PM
> To: Scott Allan; dnsadmin
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: .ca pre-registration "speculation"
>
>
> Hi Scott,
>
> > Not the case. CIRA are only holding us back so much - truth is,
> registrars
> > who have been submitting to date have had *lots* of problems with
> > inconsistent and non-existant responses. Not submitting so far
> has been a
> > blessing in many ways, we will be dealing with much less buggy CIRA
> > systems (although, not bug free).
>
> How can this be a blessing ? I would like to clearly understand how our
> orders would compete with other registrars that have submitted the same
> domains, at a date *AFTER* we saved them in OpenSRS ?
>
> > We have submitted more names to CIRA in the last 12 hours than we ever
> > have before. It is looking OK -
> > As long as they remain stable, we should be processing tomorrow.
>
> Can you please describe for us all what is the criteria guiding your
> processing of orders ?
> We have orders dating back to sept. 18 and none has been submitted. NONE.
>
> Why ? Customers aren't stupid and will figure out that OpenSRS is holding
> their order. Why will they come to us in light of this !?!?!
>
> Fabian Rodriguez - Associate Director, Outsourcing and Business
> development
> Toxik Technologies Inc. - www.Toxik.com - (514)528-6945 x1
>
