Likely this has been posted.
when will opensrs start accepting submissions?
tx,
josh
> From: "Rick Baraniuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:42:51 -0400
> To: "Robert L Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: .biz and .info updates
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert L Mathews
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:36 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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!
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
>
>
