I think we have some confused souls here...
PIR was not down, Affilias was down (which effects .org .info and .vc).
And with the said, .org .info and .vc domains were still resolving just
fine, only WHOIS, management and registration was down.
> >Outages happen. That's life. I trust that they are working towards a
> >resolution, but ICANN really isn't a factor unless they actually operate the
> >downed servers themselves.
>
> They did however choose to award the contract to ISOC - which was in some
> people's opinion a setup job due to the overlapping board members on both
> boards - allegedly.
>
> It wasn't as though there was not a fine selection of other potential
> quality experienced operators available.
>
> So ICANN is responsible for awarding the operation to an organisation that
> seems to be unable to fulfill its responsibilities.
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