will all these functions be available thru the quickstart gui from the get
go?
tx,
josh
> From: "Rick Baraniuk" <rbaraniuk@tucows.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 11:26:51 -0400
> To: "Swerve" <shwa@swerve.com>, <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
> Subject: RE: .biz and .info updates
>
> Josh et al
> OpenSRS will start accepting submissions this afternoon. The time was
> originally supposed to be 12:00 noon, but has been pushed back til about
> 3:00pm EST. There is some great news associated with this delay - we will
> also be offering an UPDATED CLIENT CODE! (for .info pre-reg only) As the
> client code was not to be ready until end of week, beginning of next, I
> think this is great news. .biz pre-reg can only be performed via
> RWI...until we get any specs from NeuLevel :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Rick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Swerve [mailto:shwa@swerve.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 10:44 AM
> To: Rick Baraniuk; discuss-list@opensrs.org
> Subject: Re: .biz and .info updates
>
>
> Likely this has been posted.
>
> when will opensrs start accepting submissions?
>
> tx,
>
> josh
>
>> From: "Rick Baraniuk" <rbaraniuk@tucows.com>
>> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 09:42:51 -0400
>> To: "Robert L Mathews" <lists@tigertech.com>, <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
>> Subject: RE: .biz and .info updates
>>
>> 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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