Ray
It means that some individual pre-registered example.info for the Sunrise
period. Once a name is pre-registered during Sunrise, it is blocked from
being registered during the Landrush period. Again, we are doing this to
maximize reseller chances of successfully registering the domain.
(Registrars lose a turn in the queue if there are duplicate names submitted)
Rick
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2001 3:20 AM
To: Rick Baraniuk
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
Hi Rick,
Thanks for the quick response. I found the old thread when searching
for domain taken in my "discuss" archives. Since it matches the
behaviour I'm currently seeing I thought that perhaps it is true.
I understood it the way you explain it below, but when I try to
pre-register "example.info" it comes back with "domain taken".
And we have not pre-registered example.info yet. This happens
via our 2.41 perl client or via the resellers web interface.
Help!
Thanks,
Ray
> 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
>
