OpenSRS will randomize all resellers and decide whose .info request to
submit to the registry
We are playing fair...as we always do.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Brody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:32 AM
To: Rick Baraniuk
Cc: Robert L Mathews; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .info Duplicates NOT Accepted
Rick,
Will the OpenSRS resellers have the names accepted on a first come first
serve basis.
or will OpenSRS randomize all resellers and decide whose .info request to
submit
to the registry?
thanks for the clarification
michael
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Rick Baraniuk wrote:
> OpenSRS will be accepting a SINGLE pre-registration for a particular name
> (e.g. sex.info) from each reseller. Therefore we will not be permitting
> 1000 applications for a .info name (unlike .biz domain name applications)
>
> Essentially, the 'first' draw will happen 7 days after the open of the
> registry, the 'second' will happen three days after that, the 'third'
three
> days after, etc. You should know soon enough whether a domain has been
> successfully pre-registered - you will receive an 'error' message.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rick
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Robert L Mathews
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:02 PM
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: .info Duplicates Accepted
>
>
> "OpenSRS Live Reseller Update 06/18/01" wrote:
>
> >.info update: critical pre-reg application changes
> >-------------------
> >
> >In response to overwhelming reseller demand, and in an effort to
> >ensure that each reseller, regardless of size, has an equal
> >opportunity to register the best .info domain names: Tucows will
> >accept duplicate Landrush pre-registrations. Duplicates will be
> >randomized and a single application chosen before submission to
> >Afilias for Landrush.
>
> So is there anything preventing a single reseller from submitting, say, a
> million applications for sex.info? Or are we going to have a meltdown?
>
> Also, just to be sure I understand, Afilias will still be holding
> drawings every week (or so), right? So assuming sex.info is awarded in
> the first drawing, there's no point in applying for it one week later,
> because it will have been taken. So I assume you guys are going to try to
> keep your queues in sync with the Afilias queues so you submit one
> application (at random) each time Afilias is going to process a round?
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
>
