Good. That answers all my questions too. Thanks
cheers
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:36 PM
Subject: RE: multinational already started???
> Hi Bill,
>
> Ah the bq-- issue. It's a hot one amongst the participating registrars.
Let
> me give you some background.....
>
> On Sunday when I checked the registry DB...of the 25+million domains
> registered there were 704 bq--* variations. When I checked just a few
> minutes ago I came up with 898. A few weeks ago when we switched prefix
(as
> told by the registry) from ra-- to bq-- there were none.
>
> So yes folks are being mighty brave and smacking down some speculative $$
on
> the hopes that these will work...however there are a few important points
to
> note:
>
> Currently the testbed requires us as registrars to not only send the
> multilingual names and regular tech, billing and contact info, but also
the
> encoding type (shift-jis, Big5 etc.) So these names that have been
> registered in the production DB are lacking the encoding type. As well the
> bq--* prefix will likely change a few times as the test bed rolls on
through
> its various stages (so says the author of the IETF Draft on RACE). So to
the
> speculators out there I say "good luck"...and to the rest of us patiently
> waiting for the 10th I say...Good Luck!!
>
> I'm expecting a call from the registry at the 11th hour saying "OK the new
> prefix is...." and we will do it and that will be that. I'll be mindful to
> keep you all updated on this and the Live resellers list of late breaking
> news. If and when that happens the technical impact to you is negligible.
>
> Great Questions Bill!
>
> Cheers,
>
> James M. Woods
> Product Manager
> Tucows Inc.
> 416-535-0123 ext. 1491
> www.opensrs.org
> www.tucows.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Wilson
> Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:04 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: multinational already started???
>
>
> Hi.
>
> I just got the multinational name client working. After encoding several
key
> names in RACE and looking them up in the whois directory, it seems
Japanese
> companies are already registering RACE encoded names, like:
>
> bq--3ayeuvankjgq.com (name.com in Japanese)
>
> Is the bq-- prefix already confirmed? What's going on?
>
> Bill
>
>
- multinational already started??? Bill Wilson
