Re: Needed Clarification

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

At 06:49 AM 6/18/97 -0400, Sandy C. Kronenberg wrote:
>Questions:
>	1) If my organization meets all of the application requirements ( checked 
>by Anderson ), will we be guaranteed to be authorized as a registrar.

Yes.

>	2) Will all 7 of the proposed new TLD's be under the jurisdiction of new 
>registrars

Yes.

>	3) What is happening to Network Solutions?

Good question.  They hardly say anything on their own behalf.  I suspect
they are playing wait and see.

>	4) Most Importantly: Are there going to be any cost controls ( basically 
>does everyone have to charge exactly the same or is this going to be a free 
>for all where everybody is going to start under-cutting each other until 
>they go out of business...like we've seen with the ISP's)

Every registrar is free to charge whatever they please.  NetNames will have
a fee, but will offer value-added service.  Other registrars may operate as
if the domain names were a commodity value.  They will probably have low
prices.

>	5) When is the final application going to be released!

Soon, I hope.  Within the week is my guess.

>	6) What are the formal procedures by which IANA roots will be modified by 
>registrars

Don't know exactly.


>	7) When will the 7 TLD's go on-line (basically what is the lag time between 
>Aug 1 and when the registrars can go online)

The CORE registry has to be built.  Many people are working on that.  I am
guessing late fall.

>
>Thank You for reading all that...
>
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