> 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.
>
I see, then this talk of "queues" is quite misleading.
> The basic difference is the price....premium is $60 and regular is
> $20.
Premium $30, correct? (3 years in contrast to 2 years for regular)
> Premium is a joint venture of some registrars...it is not offered via
> Afilias.
Ok, I assumed this.
>
> Does this help? If not - feel free to ask me to clarify so you can gain a
> better understanding.
>
Ok, I still lack an understanding of the "interface" between you (or any
registrar) and Afilias, or, in other words, what happens when you submit?
As I understand, you have two queues, Premium and Regular. Ok, what happens
on D-Day when you submit? How does Afilias get hold of this influx? Do they
open up for ANY incoming queue and revolve thru all of them? Or do they just
grab everything in a big pool and then select randomly?
I mean, it's clear a queue of 1.000 domains bears a greater probability of
choosing one name and a smaller probability of a name clash than a 10.000
name queue. However, this is only true if both queues are getting
independantly fed into the registration mechanism. Which would also mean
that Afilias would need to revolve thru more queues each time a registrar
chooses to add a second queue. Which I doubt that Afilias would this. On the
other hand, if you just submit a 10.000 and a 1.000 queue into a big pool
that's just another 11.0000 names and the effect of the small queue is gone.
See what I mean?
Kai
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