While we're putting things on the record I'd like to be told once again what the relationships between Tucows, OpenSRS and DomainDirect are.
I know that Register.com's questionnaire is trying to liken Tucows and DomainDirect as being synomynous but they aren't in my mind. My guess is that Domain Direct is a necessary evil that Tucows had to setup for all those onetime callers who wanted to register domains "AT THE SOURCE" and yet had no intentions of becoming an RSP. Also recommending any subset of RSPs would be considered favourtism yadda yadda. (This of course is nothing new. Even Compaq's tech support line will direct people to their own direct sales if a client chooses the correct (from our standpoint "incorrect" :) menu options.) OpenSRS are purists putting the procedures and software in place to service the registration of domains whilst adhering to methodology that allows for both the correction of "features" as they're found as well as augmenting the system to incorporate new features desired by RSPs and their clients. This religious order of progamming zealots and evangelical "one set of rules for all registrars" holy warriors fighting the good fight with ICAAN and others is untainted by such evils as marketing, business models, making systems pay for their costs etc. These black arts are left to Tucows personnel (one reportedly going by the name of "Jacqui") so OpenSRS types can maintain their vow of devotion to the art of domain registration. There are those who state that there really aren't any humans at OpenSRS but actually a bank of sophisticated AI projects madly attempting to address every whim of the evil Tucows overlords. This of course can be spotted by the people on this list who have @tucows.com email addresses but I for one don't buy this theory. I have it on very good authority that Scott Allan is in fact a real humanoid life form with actual sightings to confirm this. Is this pretty much an accurate picture of the structure of the empire? :) Jack Jacqueline Cook wrote: > For the record, Tucows is not considering implementing anything like the > Register.com transfer questionnaire. > > Thanks for the input Jack. > Jacqui
