Kai
Not sure if this question was answered for you or not...if not:
I think your first question is with respect to how Afilias processes the
queues for .info. If so, this is how it works: on September 12, Afilias
will begin accepting pre-registrations for the Landrush period. It is
likely they will have five seperate processing dates (similar to what they
did for Sunrise) which is what you refer to as queues. For example, the
queues could be as follows:
Q1 - Sept 17
Q2 - Sept 24
Q3 - Sept 27
Q4 - Sept 30
Q5 - Oct 1
As long as you have submitted a preregistration before a particular date,
then you will be submitted into that respective queue.
As for the regular and premium queues...it works like this. The name is
given as premium queue as there will be significantly less names in the
respective queues compared to Tucows regular queue. Mathematically, the
smaller the queue size, the greater probability the registrant will be
awarded the name. However, it is recommended that both the premium and
regular queues are selected to maximize the probability (more queues = more
chances) The basic difference is the price....premium is $60 and regular is
$20.
Resellers are NOT charged unless the domain is successfully registered.
Premium is a joint venture of some registrars...it is not offered via
Afilias.
Does this help? If not - feel free to ask me to clarify so you can gain a
better understanding.
Thanks
Rick
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 2:32 PM
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Subject: Re: Premium .info
> We are keeping 2 lists a Regular List and a Premium List. Nothing has
> changed with the Regular list and the lists are not mutually exclusive.
>
Thinking this over I think I have still not completely understood this.
All registrars submit to Afilias and they then assign those queues to
five (or so) *internal* queues for round-robin processing. Is this
correct? Or do they do round-robin processing thru *all* unchanged
registrar queues (making it 20+ queues)?
Whatever they do I don't get it how the Premium queue comes into play
here. With both methods it is obvious that each Premium registrar needs
to submit the Premium queue first and then the Regular queue. Is this
correct? If so, I think I have understood. If not I haven't yet
understood :-)
However, it then doesn't make any sense to submit domains to Regular if
you already submitted to Premium (unless some registrars have extremely
short Premium queues which isn't likely since all Premium queues are
spread).
Also, is Premium an Afilias offering or a joint venture of some
registrars?
Thanks,
Kai
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