Re: Competition between new registrars

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 06:55 PM 7/18/97 +0100, European On-Line Partners wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am representing a body who may wish to become one of the new gTLD
>registrars, I have a few queries:
>
>28 new registrars worldwide, 7 per region

The limit was removed.  Review the www.gtld-mou.org site.

>
>Are the new registrars going to compete worldwide or are they going to be
>just authorised to register domains entities in their own region??

They can compete worldwide.

>
>Also, is there any profile of the preferred organisation type to apply e.g.
>public body, ISP, Web services company, Government Dept etc? Are there
>qualifying criteria published anywhere?

Yes.  See the application form on the gtld-mou.org site.

>
>I mean its fine to say we'll take our 10,000 dollars if you have 300,000
>liquid,  insurance and if you'll sign away all your rights, but in return
>I'd like a guage to assess the probability for success, or at least to guage
>if my client is in the ballpark!!!
>
>Anyone else have these requirements?
>
>David Horgan
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Hank Nussbacher
iPOC member
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