Acting only five days after its highly publicized adoption of a new system
of registering new domain names, the International Ad Hoc Committee
announced Tuesday that it will remove its limit on registrars. Under a
memorandum of understanding signed last week, the IAHC limited the number
of name registrars to 28 worldwide, to be selected by lottery. Citing
"consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any service
meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible to become
a registrar. No lottery will be held.
1) URL, por favor?
2) So there will be an unlimited number of registrars? I thought that
everyone meeting the financial and technical qualifications was _already_
eligible (if they applied), and that the lottery would determine which of
them _became_ registrars.
Call me confused.
Are these requirements listed anywhere?
I've got customers chomping at the bit to get at these new domains.
I just need to know how to register these domains.
You can find links to a few stories about the lottery being dropped at:
http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn/naming.html
Randy
The IAHC's proposal can be found at
"http://www.iahc.org/draft-iahc-recommend-00.html". Any cutomers
(including yourself) will need to contact one of the new registrars to get
a domain registered (similar to how you go to InteRNIC for .com domains.)
unless you are a registrar yourself. The requirements for becoming
elligible to be a registrar are also listed in that document.
Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a
year from now.
Information about the IAHC, its procedures, and its recommendations, as
well as endorsing parties can be found at "http://www.iahc.org/".
Stephen
I fail to see how it is possible that the IAHC announced anything this
week; the IAHC was dissolved on 1 May 97 when the gTLD-MoU was signed.
There is absolutely nothing to the effect of your statement on the IAHC web
page (http://www.iahc.org/), and there is no new IETF draft from the
(dissolved) IAHC in the InterNIC archives.
Where did this information come from?
Stephen
Please note that the domains are not scheduled to be available for over a
year from now.
This is inaccurate. We do not know exactly when they will become
available but many of are hopeful that it will be summer or early fall,
this year. Somewhere in the range of 4-6 months from now.
In the list of requirements, one that caught my eye was a 24/7 helpdesk.
Does a help desk mean someone who tells you what is wrong and that it'll
take you three days to get it fixed or one that can fix it immediately?
AFAIK, the Internic doesn't have either on a 24/7 scale currently. They
do have a NOC (I hear) but have never really seen it work, cough, very well.
-Deepak.
In Geneva, as editor of the IAHC Final Report I apologized for some
careless wording concerning this and let me do it again, for this list.
There are two lists of requirements in the Report. The first is short and
highly objective to measure. That is the list that will be used by the
auditors to qualify applicants to be registrars.
The second list is much longer and often more subjective. It is in
the "Discussion" section rather than "Recommendations" section, where the
term "recommendation" follows some international agencies' use of it to
mean, well, requirement.
Anyhow, the second list represents the considered opinion of the
IAHC for what is REALLY necessary to do a good job. It was our way of
attempting to provide practical guidance, rather than bureaucratic
formality, for those seeking to do the registrar task well. I.e., it's
just our opinion and does not affect the formal aspects of selection.
d/
> Citing "consistent and universal criticism," the IAHC announced that any
> service meeting financial and technical qualifications will be eligible
> to become a registrar. No lottery will be held.1) URL, por favor?
2) So there will be an unlimited number of registrars? I thought that
everyone meeting the financial and technical qualifications was _already_
eligible (if they applied), and that the lottery would determine which of
them _became_ registrars.
Exactly as you stated. An applicant still has to be qualified as per the
previous rules. It is just that after you are qualified - there is no
lottery and you become part of the Council Of REgistrars.
Call me confused.
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Todd Graham Lewis MindSpring Enterprises tlewis@mindspring.com
Hank Nussbacher
iPOC member
[the views expressed above belong to the author and do not
necessarily reflect the views of the other iPOC members]
Ok... what exactly are the qualifications to become a registrar? The
document says "these may change" what if anything have they changed to? Can
someone restate them again? Any official URL or docs on this?
M
See www.iahc.org (name being changed) and look at the final document and
look in section 4.1.1 for the 5 criteria.