Well, that's a registrar simply auctioning off names that they *might* get as part of the LR2, nothing more (and has nothing to do with Tucows, or the registry)
Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, ST wrote: > Is it just me, or is there something VERY wrong about this? ST > > From: Sales@Directi > Subject: Extension of .INFO LR2 Bidding Deadline > > The bidding deadline has now been extended until 2 weeks after > Afilias > announces the Successful domain results. Below is the timeline > schedule > for our bidding and domain allocation process > > July 1st: > We will have submitted all names through all our queues (6 > already and > counting) by this date. These names will temporarily be in the > name of > Directi. After the bidding is over the names will be transferred > to the > highest bidder. > > July 8th: > Some of the Registrars we use do not have a provision to import > these > names into their DB and allow us to change contact info of the > successful > registrations. We will be developing the programs to do this by > this date > > July 9th: > Afilias will announce their results sometime around this date > > July 10th: > We will retain all successful registrations in our bidding queue > and > remove all the other names. Therefore the bidding will continue > ONLY on > successfully registered names from this point on. > > July 22nd: > We will close the bids and send out mails to the highest bidders > to send > in their payments for their domains > > July 28th: > All domains for which payments are recvd will be transferred to > the > appropriate bidders. For those domains that payments have not > been recvd > from the highest bidder, we will contact the next highest bidder > > Regards > Sales@Directi > >
