RE: Confused

[Antony Van Couvering <avc@netnamesusa.com>]

Sandy,

Disagree. 

I don't think Digital is going to become a domain registrar.  There's a lot
of explaining to do to people about these things, technical issues to help
them resolve.  In other words, there is a lot of customer service and other
value-added services that will allow registrars to distinguish themselves
from other registrars.

Besides, the world is big...

Antony




At 04:03 AM 6/17/97 -0400, Sandy C. Kronenberg wrote:
>>> We are interested in applying to be a registrar but I don't see whether or
>>> not there has been a diffinitive answer regarding the lottery...Is is
going
>>> to be a lottery or not...If not will everbody who fits the requirements be
>>> allowed to be a registrar and if so then is everybody going to have to
>>> communicate frequently with the roots?  Could someone shed some light
on the
>>> current sit.
>>> Thanks
>>> Sandy,
>>
>>The lottery has been droped.  If you meet the qualifications  you will be
>>allowed to become a registrar.  You will not have any contact with the
>>roots, but you will need to have contact with CORE (Council of Registries)
>>to coordinate your registrtation of second level domain (joes.web for
>>example).   There is a near final draft of the registrar application
>>available on www.gtld-mou.org.
>
>
>So then basically there will be thousands of registrars...whats the point if 
>organizations like digital and the like are registrars...they will receive 
>95% of the registrations because they normally get millions of hits on their 
>search engins...
>	Do you guys agree or disagree?
>
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>Sandy C. Kronenberg                                phone          (248)
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>Defrag Inc.                                                 fax
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