Re: (Newbie Query)

[Hungar <webmaster@hungar.com>]

Stephen,

Your best course of action is to goto
http://www.gtld-mou.org/docs/reg-results.html
and register your name with someone in the top ten on that list.  It's my
understanding
that when the software for this system is developed and put into play
(sometime in February)
that the listings of names registered will start with registrar #1 and move
down the list from there.

In other words, the first guy on the list gets his names in the real system
first and so on.

Good luck, we all need it.

Will Barnwell
Hungar Design, Ltd.


At 05:52 PM 11/28/97 +0800, Stephen Cole wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I've just read the last 10 days' postings and, my! what a vigorous
>discussion group.
>
>We're establishing an online enterprise and I want to secure a brilliant
>domain name we've come up with.
>
>It's too late to get the .com version as every conceivable word in the
>entire English language seems to have been snaffled on the internic whois.
>
>But what about if we pre-register under .shop on the gTLD system? The only
>thing is that there seem to be about 85 registrars offering pre-registration
>and some of them for an upfront fee. Fair enough, but I get the feeling from
>the stuff I've been hearing on this list that it's not certain that this
>gTLD thing will get up. Is this so?
>
>Can you refer me to some article that gives a reasonable overview of the
>current state of play? And the history of this controversy and the main
>issues involved. I'm not so good at intuiting acronyms and my brain is
>creaking as I try to cobble together a mental image of the whole dns
>topography and the economics/politics involved.
>
>I'd be very grateful for any guidance you can offer.
>
>Stephen Cole
>BIBLIOS PTY LTD
>Western Australia
>sjcole@iinet.net.au
>
>
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