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>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:55:37 -0500
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>Subject: OpenSRS Live Reseller Update - 04/18/02
>
>Greetings -
>
>Please find following an update on OpenSRS.
>
>
>1. .us "landrush" order logic
>-----------------
>Please be advised of the following important details for the
>.us launch.
>
>- creation of a pre-registration queue
>- schedule of events
>- real time order details
>
>As a result of our past experiences with registry launches,
>we are using a different approach for the .us landrush event
>scheduled for April 24 2002. We are creating a queue of
>orders to submit to the registry at the start of landrush.
>We will take pre-registrations for this landrush queue on a
>first come first served basis starting 0900 EST March 21
>2002. This will allow us to better control our registration
>flow (during landrush) to the registry, and maximize our
>ability to successfully process registrations. Should the
>registry experience load issues, compromised levels of
>service, or outages as a result of the landrush event, this
>approach will allow us more flexibility to respond to these
>conditions, and ultimately achieve a better successful
>registration rate.
>
>Additionally, this will allow resellers to collect and queue
>pre-registration orders in advance, so they do not have to
>worry about managing the registration flow to us during the
>potentially chaotic landrush period.
>
>Pre-registrations will be queued and processed on a first
>come first served basis. As pre-registrations are processed,
>funds for successful registrations will be removed from your
>OpenSRS account. Should you not have enough funds to
>complete a transaction, it will fail and not be sent to the
>registry. Once we have successfully cleared our
>pre-registration queue, and we can confirm that the registry
>is able to respond to real-time requests at normal service
>levels, we will make available real-time .us registrations.
>We will accept .us pre-registration orders from March 21st
>until we are able to make our .us real-time registration
>process available.
>
>As a result of this approach, we recommend that resellers
>collect pre-registrations for .us names in advance of April
>24 and submit them to our pre-registration queue as early as
>possible in order to maximize their own registration success
>rate. Furthermore, we recommend that resellers collect fees
>from registrants to cover registrations, as we require that
>resellers have sufficient funds to process any registrations
>at submission time.
>
>**Schedule of events:
>March 19th 2002 - client code released with .us
>pre-registration functionality - testing can be done
>against our test system horizon.opensrs.net - RWI
>functionality for .us pre-registration is also
>available on out test systems for testing
>
>March 21st 2002 - 0900 EST - pre-registration queue for
>.us landrush opens - orders placed will not require funds
>- resellers can use either the client code or the RWI to
>submit orders
>
>April 7th 2002 - Eastern Daylight Savings Time begins - our
>schedule reflects this change
>
>April 24th 2002 1000 EDT - registry opens for landrush,
>Tucows will process orders from our queue as we are able to,
>funds will be required in order to have an order from the
>queue sent to the registry. We will continue to accept new
>pre-registration orders (into our queue) throughout this process
>
>Registry operation stabilizes and pre-registration queue is
>clear - we will give 4 hours notice before making our
>real-time .us order process available, resellers will be
>able to continue to use the pre-registration order process
>for one week after this announcement. There will be only a
>small client code change to change from pre-registration to
>real-time order processing. Resellers who use only the RWI
>will simply use a different link to process real-time .us
>orders.
>
>
>**Important notes:
>- to optimize your chances for successful registration, you
>should enter pre-registration orders into our systems as
>soon as possible
>- our .us real-time order process (available only after the
>registry is stable after April 24th) will have a new
>optional feature that will allow you to specify queuing of
>orders for automatic processing should the registry
>experience scheduled or un-scheduled downtime
>- resellers who continue to use the pre-registration order
>process for the week after the real-time order process is
>released will only experience short delays in order
>processing
>
>As always - thanks for your continued support of OpenSRS!
>
>Regards,
>
>sA
>Scott Allan
>Director, OpenSRS
>
>
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