Not to sound suspicious and paranoid, but....
When OpenSRS is down for scheduled maintenance, all RSPs are offline.
You can't even do lookups to see if names are available. Fair enough.
But when I check Domain Direct (the Tucows in house retail RSP) during
outages, it still works. I can do lookups (which work -- it knows what's
taken and what's not), it allows me to signup, everything's fine.
Why is this? Are they not using the standard OpenSRS lookup code? If
that's the case (and the solution is proprietary), that's fine, I guess,
although I'd prefer that the money Tucows spent to create such a solution
instead be spent on the OpenSRS end so we can all benefit from it.
And on the other hand, if Domain Direct is using the standard OpenSRS
lookup code -- why does theirs work during outages that affect everyone
else?
Okay, I guess I AM suspicious and paranoid. Still.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
