Ah Ha! I knew it! I knew that no normal human
could answer these posts
seemingly 24 hours a day the way you do
Charles.
Remember, a while back I questioned your sleep habits.
I had my suspicions then, and now you've confirmed
it!
;o)
-Mark
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:38
AM
Subject: RE: Register.com's transfer
questionnaire
To make it clear (and brief)
DomainDirect existed as a
property of Tucows long before the deregulation of
the CNO namespace.
When Tucows created OpenSRS as a platform for domain
registrations,
DomainDirect was treated (and is still treated) as a simple
reseller of
OpenSRS. While many other companies don't seem to recognize
this
distinction, it may be to the detriment of register.com to not see
that
many MANY transfers from register.com do NOT go to domaindirect but DO
go to
OpenSRS as a registrar.
Scott is real, I am not. AKA -
machinamal (have animal, half machine)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS
Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original
Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jack Broughton
>
Sent: April 2, 2002 2:31 PM
> To: Jacqueline Cook
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Subject: Re: Register.com's transfer questionnaire
>
>
>
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
>
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