Just to play Devil's Advocate, what if two of my clients both want
tigertech.info. I would then legitimately need to put in more than one
request for a domain...
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Robert I think that I addressed that question in some part last night...but I am going to give it a try again to see if I can further clarify.
The first reseller to submit a pre-registration request will be awarded the 'place' in the Tucows queue. For example, if 2 resellers attempt to pre-register tigertech.info then the first to submit would receive a spot in the Tucows queue. Any duplicate pre-registration request submission will result in an 'error' message to the submitting reseller (most likely a 'domain taken' message or something very similar - therefore multiple submissions will not be permitted).
As for the selection process - it WILL be randomized from within the Tucows queue - so further to your point the best chance to be awarded the domain will most likely come in round 1 of the queue as nothing has been previously registered.
Correct - if a reseller submits during the first seven day round then they will be awarded the domain...and correct again that the queues grow smaller and smaller until the pre-registration process becomes first-come, first-served, so there is an advantage to submitting as soon as Tucows begins accepting submissions.
Thanks
Rick
-----Original Message----- From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org [mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of Robert L Mathews Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:36 AM To: discuss-list@opensrs.org Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
At 6/4/01 6:36 PM, Kirk Fletcher wrote:
>> 4. .info registry will be selecting submissions RANDOMLY from within >> the Tucows queue; all resellers, regardless of submission date, have >> an EQUAL chance of being awarded the .info domain) > >I'd interpreted the above to mean that it was no longer a first-in, >first-served basis. I guess that was the wrong interpretation?
And does this mean that there is no longer a limit of one applicant per name? (And if so, what stops people from applying multiple times?) I'm really confused now.
A related question: according to the docs at http://www.opensrs.org/dotinfo_info.shtml , the selection process will occur by running through the backlogged queues at random every seven days (at least, that's the interpretation I got out of it).
So even if it's now random within those queues and submission date doesn't matter, it's only random over the given seven day period, right? That is, if there's one submission for example.biz in the first seven day round, that person will automatically get the domain, and a person who later puts a submission into the second round is out of luck. So it's still first come, first served, in that sense, correct?
I also note that the intent of the .info queue process is that the queues grow smaller and smaller until the registry ends up operating in real-time (this is specifically stated for the sunrise period and implied for the landrush period). So there, again, at some arbitrary point nobody can predict in advance, it will shift to first come, first served, right? So again, getting them in early is important.
Please clarify. Thanks!
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
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