ICANN likely has some form of documentation on their site regarding what
happens to a Registrar's business if they fold, get bought out, hit by
meteors, or other acts and activities that may affect their natural
ability to handle the business.
While I haven't read this myself (if it does in fact exist, in a public
forum at least), my guess is they'd auction or dole out the domains to the
remainder of the Registrars that are interested in managing the name
space. Then it's a lottery :)
OR...we could all get together, put together horrendous amounts of money,
and start our own Registrar! Yeah, the OpenSRS Discussion List Composium
of Domain Name Registrations and Other Innanities (ODLCDNROI for short).
Just a thought....
Robert Rivers wrote:
>
> My apologies, I didn't think the whole problem through (Also, didn't spell
> check)
>
> If any TLD registrar closed, all the domains would have to be transferred to a
> different registrar. The choice would be yours and the details would be handled
> by the new registrar. In the worst case, the domain wouldn't be manageable until
> the transfer took place.
>
> In order to avoid your hypothetical 3 days till renewal, don't wait that long.
> Domains can be renewed at any time and super-critical domains should never be
> allowed to come anywhere close to expiring.
>
> On Mon, 01 May 2000, Abhimanyyu
> Raj-Singh wrote: > Hi Robert, > > David's question had echoes of concerns
> which touched all of us. > > The domains are undoubtedly paid for till certain
> dates and hence shall > remain as registered, till those dates, in the root
> registry or till the > meteor strike. The probability of which must have been
> dealt with by having > the same information in different sites (hopefully!)
> >
> > The question really is who would take over the registry administration of
> > the domains and what would be our status in such an eventuality, how would
> > the domains be accessed for management, renewals etc.etc.
> >
> > We all have a lot riding on this, not to mention clients whose entire
> > businesses are riding on single domain registrations. For example what would
> > happen in the case of your hypothetical meteor strike on OpenSRS with a
> > clients domain up for renewal in 3 days, imagine a portal conducting vast
> > business who needs imminent renewal.
> >
> > In a sense, like the Registrant can bypass the RSP to reach Tucows or
> > OpenSRS directly for redressal in emergencies; who can the RSP reach if you
> > have to be bypassed.
> >
> > I may not have put the thought down correctly, but if understood, the
> > question needs to be addressed.
> >
> > Abhi
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
> > [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of Robert Rivers
> > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 7:00 PM
> > To: opensrs
> > Subject: Re: question
> >
> >
> > Nothing would happen to your domains. Even if OpenSRS was hit by meteor,
> > they're
> > in the root registry and will stay there until the registration runs out.
> >
> > Our until the root server gets hit by a meteor...
> >
> > On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, David Iyoha
> > wrote: > Hello, >
> > > This question is really towards opensrs but I would also like to hear
> > > what everyone thinks.
> > >
> > > What happens to our domains if for some unknown reason Tuscows goes out
> > > of business?
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > David
> > > --
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> > > david.iyoha@systware.com
> > > (513) 241 3331
> > > http://www.systware.com
> > --
> > Robert Rivers
> > (416) 535-0123 x307
> > OpenSRS Technical Operations
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