The problem here is with ICANN who openSRS has to live with. ICANN has
effectively distroyed and destabilized the registries - and that's a real
pity.
Regards
Joe Baptista
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Ken wrote:
> Ross,
> Thank you for your work, and all that openSRS is trying to do.
> I realize that network trouble can render any software useless.
> My apologies, but I incorrectly assumed that Tucows had a stake in
> RegisterFree, since it was hosted on a Tucows mirror.
>
> I am concerned however, that as we are trying to establish ourselves as
> reputable, responsible resellers of a discounted, but better product
> than was previously available through N.S., we are seeing quite a few
> snafus in the Network. We have been providing internet services since
> 1993, and are not unaccustomed to occasional problems - but our
> customers never seem to get used to them.
>
> -Ken
> http://domains.pacific.net
>
>
>
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 00:14:57 -0500 (EST)
> "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > > Register Free is junk.
> > > I sincerely hope Tucows isn't going to continue this silliness while
> > > RSPs are having such trouble getting to their servers, and software has
> > > been delayed.....
> > >
> >
> > Ken,
> >
> > This "silliness" is what we are about. We provide wholesale domain name
> > registration services to those that want to buy wholesale domain names.
> > As I mentioned earlier, we took extraordinary steps to ensure that
> > RegisterFree's promotion did not affect the performance of our other
> > resellers. I suppose that we could have just let them nail the OpenSRS
> > core array for an hour and given them the same treatment as everyone else.
> >
> > Further, your conclusion that this promo and the delay in the new software
> > release is somehow related doesn't resonate in the least. Software
> > developers typically develop software and network engineers and admins
> > build and run networks. The sum total contribution of our LA dev team was
> > a piece of fast query code to run lookups against a local DB - roughly 2
> > hours of time.
> >
> > As far as the troubles that you encountered getting to the server - again
> > isolated incidents.
> >
> > Personal commment:
> > My apologies if my manner is somewhat abrasive, but quite frankly this
> > entire evening has been less than pleasurable and as far as I'm concerned,
> > would not have been an issue had NSI not dropped the ball with the
> > registry.
> >
> > -RWR
> >
> >
> >
>
