Ray
I am not sure how old that thread is that you cut from...but just to
clarify...
...in response to reseller demand...(regarding .info Landrush only) Tucows
will be accepting a single pre-registration per reseller (eg. you may submit
a single request for example.info) but WILL BE accepting duplicate
registrations from resellers (eg. 100 resellers may each submit a single
registration for example.info) From there, we will randomly select a single
submission to put in the Tucows queue to submit to the Afilias registry.
Everything is outlined in the upgrade guide at:
http://www.opensrs.org/docs/OpenSRS_v2.41_Upgrade_Guide_infobiz.PDF
For those that are continuing to promote .info and .biz to their
registrants - be sure to check out the reseller sales kits here:
http://www.opensrs.org/saleskits.shtml We are expecting to update with even
more information this week...including more registrant related FAQ, some
graphics for .info and .biz...and more white labelled email.
Good luck selling! Keep it comin!
Rick
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 2:32 PM
To: Rick Baraniuk
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
> <snip>
> and I beg your indulgence, but what does this sentence from the original
> notice mean: all resellers, regardless of submission date, have an EQUAL
> chance of being awarded the .info domain. Since only one reseller can
> submit a request for any given domain, it's clearly NOT "regardless of
> submission date" -- in fact, it's first come, first served, right? I
guess
> my confusion is that "regardless of submission date" means (to me) that
you
> can apply later and still perhaps get the domain. But that's not true --
you
> won't even be allowed to apply tomorrow if someone else at another
reseller
> has already done so today, correct?
> <snip>
>
> ...thanks for the feedback. As everyone has probably seen from the list -
> many of the requirements and rules have...morphed...so to speak. One
> example is .biz notifying registrars that successful domain applications
are
> required for a 2 year period (whereas they had previously indicated only a
1
> year period) The above is another example. Once we learned that if a
> duplicate request is submitted from a registrar then the registrar will
> 'lose' its turn in the submission queue we made the decision to only
accept
> a single application for a particular .info name. Again, this is done to
> ensure that we maximize our resellers chances of being awarded the domain
> name (realizing that Tucows cannot impact the submissions from other
> registrars in the queue) So, in the original message I communicated the
> equal chance regardless of submission. However, not long after that it
was
> changed to reflect the opportunity to maximize sucessful .info domain
> selection.
>
> Hope this helps.
No - it hurts.
We told our customers that they can submit .info pre-registrations
whenever they like and the sumbission will be chosen at random
within the OpenSRS queue. So nobody is in a big hurry to fill out
forms. And now that they get around to it, we find out that you
changed the rules.
What are we supposed to tell our customers now?
I understand the reasoning for not submitting the same domain name
more than once during the roundrobin submissions to the registry,
but is there any reason why OpenSRS can not take all reseller
pre-registrations and then chose one at random before the roundrobin
process? This would fit better with what you originally told us
and still fit the statement "all resellers, regardless of submission
date, have an EQUAL chance of being awarded the .info domain."
Thanks,
Ray
