[ga] Fw: "This whole new TLD rollout has been COMPLETELY mishandled in my opinion"

["Jim Fleming" <jfleming@anet.com>]

Subject: "This whole new TLD rollout has been COMPLETELY mishandled in my
opinion"


> http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0111/0285.html
> Subject: Re[6]: November 7 real-time - Not at Tucows
> From: William X Walsh (william@userfriendly.com)
> Date: Wed Nov 07 2001 - 00:11:55 EST
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> Tuesday, Tuesday, November 06, 2001, 9:05:19 PM, Spy OpenSRS Mail wrote:
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> > William, Understood.
>
>
> > I want to make other points on the subject but I think it would look
like
> > whining. That is not really my style.
>
>
> I don't see it as whining. It's frustrating. This whole new TLD
> rollout has been COMPLETELY mishandled in my opinion, and has been a
> disaster from day one. With a year to develop this thing, I think we
> have a right to expect much better than we have gotten (we meaning the
> internet community). When I saw all the preregistration rollout
> plans, and all the changes taking place, not only day to day but hour
> to hour it seemed, I just washed my hands of the whole thing, and said
> I wouldn't get involved until just before real time registrations
> started. I sent in my faxes for info and biz just days before the
> .info live registration period started.
>
>
> In my opinion, the registries should have ALREADY been tested, with
> co-operation of the registrars, for levels of registration traffic
> that are higher than anything they could have dreamed of happening.
> The registry and registrar should ALREADY be so confident of the
> ability of their systems to handle the load that these concerns we
> have are not an issue at all.
>
>
> But unfortunately, as we saw with .info...they are issues.
>
>
> I'm not sure where to lay all the blame. Some of it I must place with
> the respective companies (Afilias and Neulevel), some of it must be
> placed with ICANN. Who knows which deserves the lion's share?
>
>
> All I do know is that we can't depend on them to get it right, they
> already severely messed up the preregistration processes, and I expect
> them to make even more mistakes as time goes on.
>
>
> > Like yourself, I have my own code my own system and my own problems.
Most
> > days (most weeks) I have no worries about the OpenSRS system. I'm sure
> once
> > .biz fizzles in a few days we can all go back to normal routines. Until
> > then, I'll post and annoy. <laugh> Good night John-boy.
>
>
> :)
>
>
> Goodnight Lars :)
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> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <william@userfriendly.com>
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