VeriSign is "investigating" - if anyone else has reports, please send me
names (esPECIAlly if they're OpenSRS domains) so I can verifiy on our side,
and give info to VeriSign.
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Kells
> Sent: June 19, 2001 12:26 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Verisign woes....
>
>
> I would definitely like to hear the outcome of this - I haven't had any
> phonecalls from angry customers, so I don't know if any of our
> domains have
> been effected... but I'm sure plenty of other peopel would like
> to know more
> about this
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taco Scargo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 19 June 2001 16:37
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Verisign woes....
>
>
> Here is what happened:
>
> The VeriSign Global Registry (formarly NSI) was having a problem with
> getting the "leap year" calendar worked out. Yesterday they thought they
> had fixed the issue, with the leap year problem last light (they were
> inadvertendly dropping a day on expiration). However, their "fix" changed
> many thousands of domains to expiration dates of 1900, which then meant
> some registrars deleted them because they were showing as expired.
>
> I had two domains affected (not registered through OpenSRS though) that I
> know of.
> Chuck, do you know if OpenSRS domains were affected as well ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Taco Scargo
