I meant to send this to the list as well ;) Cheers
James -----Original Message----- From: James M Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:06 AM To: 'Marc Schneiders' Subject: RE: Multilingial .ORG domains deleted? Marc, Be weary of the source. I have heard quite the opposite from PIR, namely that they will be supporting IDN's in 2004. Unless something has changed since I last spoke to them. I'll get the skinny from the source and give you all an official update shortly. Cheers, James -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Schneiders Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 8:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Multilingial .ORG domains deleted? It seems that PIR has announced that it will DELETE all multilingual .ORG names on February 2004. Why does nobody tell the registrants of these domains about it? Or us, resellers who sold these things. PIR has been wavering about these domains, as I pointed out earlier on this list (and elsewhere). Now they are going to kill them alltogether. I think this is more than bad, esp. since the do this in (near?) secrecy. I see nothing about it on their website and had to learn about it from a newsletter from another registrar. I would appreciate some comment and clarification from Tucows. Below the news item from a German newsletter from dd24.net: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PIR wird multilinguale .ORG Domains nun doch l�schen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nach einer anders lautenden Meldung im November hat uns das k�rzlich ernannte Zentralregister f�r .ORG Domains, Public Interest Registry (PIR), jetzt dar�ber informiert, dass die Registrierungen der nach dem ehemaligen "RACE-Verfahren" eingetragenen multilingualen .ORG Domains (also Domains mit Umlauten bzw. Sonderzeichen) doch nicht l�nger kostenlos verl�ngert werden. Stattdessen hat sich PIR f�r eine L�schung aller multilingualen .ORG Domains zum 1. Februar 2004 entschieden. Gr�nde f�r diese Entscheidung sind insbesondere die technischen Schwierigkeiten und Unsicherheiten der zuk�nftigen Umwandlung der bereits registrierten Domains in das neue "Punycode-Verfahren". Nun muss zun�chst einmal gekl�rt werden, auf welche Weise eine Neueinf�hrung multilingualer .ORG Domains gem�� des allgemeinen Standarts zuk�nftig �berhaupt durchgef�hrt werden soll. Wir sind gespannt... Quelle: PIR
