Swerve,
You're right, we should have spelled it out. After four years, assuming
that everyone knows what an IDN is was a mistake ;-) we get new
resellers everyday. Thanks for the heads up.
Nothing to worry about here for you thought, IDN refers to
Internationalized Domain Names and basically PIR isn't ready to release
them yet and are keeping the VeriSign legacy names until such time as
they do.
Cheers,
James
On 17-Jun-04, at 8:16 PM, Swerve wrote:
> Bcc'd to Ross.
>
> Are IDN's special .Orgs, or is this affecting all .Org domains?
>
> WHAT does IDN stand for? Next time, i'd recommend spelling out
> important
> abbreviations once in full, at least at the beginning of the doc.
>
> Please forward this to Greg Frank, as his email address is not
> included in
> the email he sent out.
>
> Josh/Swerve
>
>
> 2. .ORG IDN re-lock
> ---------------
>
> This is the last chance for Resellers to transfer .ORG IDNs to Tucows
> until the registry operator re-opens the .ORG IDN namespace.
> Transfer requests must be placed by 00:00 UTC on 21 June 2004 in
> order to take advantage of this final window before the registry
> locks these domains.
>
> Until the registry operator launches an IDN-compliant solution,
> these domains will continue to be excluded from the .ORG zone
> files and thus will not resolve nor expire. The registry operator
> has not announced a date for a standards-compliant solution
> as of yet.
>
> Once the names are re-locked by the registry, the WHOIS status will
> display the following: DELETE PROHIBITED, RENEW PROHIBITED, TRANSFER
> PROHIBITED, UPDATE PROHIBITED, HOLD. Furthermore, once the names are
> re-locked, you will be unable to transfer, update, delete or renew
> IDNs.
>
> Tucows will provide additional information regarding the .ORG name
> space as it becomes available.
>
> Thank you for your continued support of Tucows.
>
> Greg Frank
> Associate Product Manager, TLDs
>
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