You are correct - I'm a wee bit off with .info, and apologize for the
mis-information.
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, ST wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought this had been changed, and now OpenSRS is accepting duplicate
> registrations from resellers, but only a single pre-registration per
> reseller?
>
> This is from a post by Rick B. 7/16/01:
>
> "...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."
>
> http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0107/0421.html
>
> I believe the domain is most likely taken because someone must have
> submitted a sunrise pre-registration for the domain. Rick explains this
> here:
>
> http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0107/0440.html
>
> ST
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Daminato
> Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 2:45 PM
> To: Taco Scargo
> Cc: Discuss-List@Opensrs. Org
> Subject: Re: .info domain taken ???
>
>
> This was decided and explained quite some time ago by Rick Baraniuk.
> Since we use a slot in the round robin whether or not the registration
> was
> successful or not, we felt it was a much better idea to have only one
> instance of each name to increase everyone's chances of getting what
> they
> desired.
>
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Taco Scargo wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried preregging a .info domain but I got 'domain taken'. How can
> that be
> > ? Or did OpenSRS suddenly decide a domain can only be preregistered by
> ONE
> > reseller only ?
> > So first come first served ?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Taco Scargo
> >
> >
>
>
