More Information on WorldRoot Listing Fee and Reliability Enhancements
Chicago, IL, USA - December 28, 2009
As announced on November 4, 2009, WorldRoot will start charging a fee for TLDs to be listed in the WorldRoot, beginning January 1,
2010.
This fee will apply to all TLD listings except legacy ICANN TLDs and ccTLDs.
The fee for 2010 will be US $175 per year.
This fee will be used to support new WorldRoot servers and provide redundant connectivity and reliable power for the current
servers.
John Palmer, President and CEO of American Webmasters, Inc. said today that the company is moving the Alpha root to a highly
connected data center in the first week of January 2010. "We will be moving to 350 E. Cermak in Chicago's South Loop - this is one
of the most highly connected, secured facilities in the world", Palmer said. 350 E. Cermak is owned by The Digital Realty Trust
which operates data centers around the world. Information about 350 E. Cermak is located HERE
In addition to this upgrade for A.WORLROOT.NET, other WorldRoot servers will be installed around the world until the complete set
of 13 servers is deployed. All of this depends on funding from TLD listing fees mentioned above.
In 2010, WorldRoot will also implement tools for both TLD holders and the internet public such as a comprehensive WHOIS service
for TLDs listed in the WorldRoot, including the ability to track changes to TLDs as listed in the WorldRoot and also information
about colliding versions of TLDs.
The WorldRoot is dedicated to supporting all of the known, active TLDs that exist in the world and will not de-list anyone that
does not pay the annual fee, but instead, will put placeholder TXT records in place for the un-funded TLDs until and unless the TLD
holder wishes to activate his or her TLD in the WorldRoot. All of the "legacy" TLDs,
that is, ICANN TLDs and ccTLDs will be grandfathered in because excluding TLDs such as .COM or any of the ccTLDs would make
WorldRoot un-usable and it is highly unlikely that ICANN, the legacy gTLD registrars or the ccTLD operators would pay, although they
will be invited to support the WorldRoot, if they so choose.
The fee structure will be implemented in phases. Starting January 1, 2010, WorldRoot will continue its audit of the WorldRoot
zone. Each TLD will be checked to make certain that it has a minimum of 2 authoritative, operational servers visible to the public
on the internet. Contact information for the TLD holder will be verified and an invoice will be sent to the TLD holder, by e-mail
and then by postal mail, if the holder does not respond to the e-mail within 14 days. If the TLD holder does not respond within 30
days after the postal mail invoice has been sent, the TLD will be removed from the live WorldRoot zone file by removing the NS
records from the root zone and replacing those records with TXT records explaining that the TLDs are "taken" but are un-funded and
therefore not operational in the WorldRoot.
No TLD records will be changed until the audit is complete for that TLD. A complete audit of the WorldRoot zone will probably take
several months.
In the next few weeks, the formal WorldRoot listing policy will be posted on the WorldRoot website in the RESOURCES section. For
more information about this and other WorldRoot matters, please visit WorldRoot website at http://www.worldroot.net. You may also
contact WorldRoot through the online contact form at that site.
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