Yes. (I agree with Alex about the intent of the Tucows.us page.)  My 
original plan was to release the revised site with the .US API (SF flavor) 
when you finished the queue.  I backed off because of the registration 
failures.

I'll add a notice to the home page :)

regards,
m2


At 01:11 PM 4/25/02 -0400, Ken Joy wrote:
>FWIW, Micheal, in your case we would still prefer that somebody we've
>referred to your home page be given SOME clue as to what they should to to
>order a .us name.
>
>Reasonable?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael J. Masin
> > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:10 PM
> > To: Alex Brecher
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: tucows.us
> >
> >
> > We're probably one of the sites that are listed and you believe we aren't
> > registering .US...
> >
> > We *are* registering .US. Through the RWI; not all of our business is
> > conducted via the API.
> >
> > We have a new version of the API staged and ready to rock-n-roll when I'm
> > comfortable that
> > everything is working smoothly.
> >
> > There has been much traffic about problems registering .US. I
> > don't want to
> > spend the next 3 days
> > reconciling credit card issues. I'm also concerned about folks
> > having a bad
> > registration experience.
> >
> > I'd rather wait another 24-48 hours, lose some business and save
> > some hair.
> >
> > regards,
> > m2
> >
> >
> > At 10:38 AM 4/25/02 -0400, Alex Brecher wrote:
> > >I just went through the list of 129 tucows resellers that are
> > being listed
> > >on the tucows.us site and it looks like most of them are not currently
> > >registering .US domain names!
> > >
> > >I really think this
> > >1. Frustrates visitors
> > >2. Is unfair to tucows resellers that are actually registering
> > .us domains
> > >3. Dilutes the value of that web site
> > >4. Wastes Tucows $ once tucows starts advertising these resources to the
> > >general public.
> > >
> > >I would suggest that only resellers that are actually registering .us
> > >domains from their site should be listed.
> > >
> > >
> > >Best Regards,
> > >
> > >Alex Brecher
> > >
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> > >
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> > >
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> >

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