Robert
I think that I addressed that question in some part last night...but I am
going to give it a try again to see if I can further clarify.
The first reseller to submit a pre-registration request will be awarded the
'place' in the Tucows queue. For example, if 2 resellers attempt to
pre-register tigertech.info then the first to submit would receive a spot in
the Tucows queue. Any duplicate pre-registration request submission will
result in an 'error' message to the submitting reseller (most likely a
'domain taken' message or something very similar - therefore multiple
submissions will not be permitted).
As for the selection process - it WILL be randomized from within the Tucows
queue - so further to your point the best chance to be awarded the domain
will most likely come in round 1 of the queue as nothing has been previously
registered.
Correct - if a reseller submits during the first seven day round then they
will be awarded the domain...and correct again that the queues grow smaller
and smaller until the pre-registration process becomes first-come,
first-served, so there is an advantage to submitting as soon as Tucows
begins accepting submissions.
Thanks
Rick
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Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:36 AM
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Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
At 6/4/01 6:36 PM, Kirk Fletcher wrote:
>> 4. .info registry will be selecting submissions RANDOMLY from within
>> the Tucows queue; all resellers, regardless of submission date, have
>> an EQUAL chance of being awarded the .info domain)
>
>I'd interpreted the above to mean that it was no longer a first-in,
>first-served basis. I guess that was the wrong interpretation?
And does this mean that there is no longer a limit of one applicant per
name? (And if so, what stops people from applying multiple times?) I'm
really confused now.
A related question: according to the docs at
http://www.opensrs.org/dotinfo_info.shtml , the selection process will
occur by running through the backlogged queues at random every seven days
(at least, that's the interpretation I got out of it).
So even if it's now random within those queues and submission date
doesn't matter, it's only random over the given seven day period, right?
That is, if there's one submission for example.biz in the first seven day
round, that person will automatically get the domain, and a person who
later puts a submission into the second round is out of luck. So it's
still first come, first served, in that sense, correct?
I also note that the intent of the .info queue process is that the queues
grow smaller and smaller until the registry ends up operating in
real-time (this is specifically stated for the sunrise period and implied
for the landrush period). So there, again, at some arbitrary point nobody
can predict in advance, it will shift to first come, first served, right?
So again, getting them in early is important.
Please clarify. Thanks!
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
