[registrars] Re: [ga] Disaster help - Request for Afilias to extend its deadlines

["Tim Langdell" <langdell@technologist.com>]

Antony,

We here at XTNS are sorry to hear of your plight.

Tim

Tim Langdell
CEO
Extended Name Services, Inc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Antony Van Couvering" <avc@nameengine.com>
To: <registrars@dnso.org>
Cc: "Stuart Lynn (E-mail)" <lynn@icann.org>; "Vint Cerf (E-mail)"
<vcerf@mci.net>; "Louis Touton (E-mail)" <touton@icann.org>; <ga@dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 3:24 PM
Subject: [ga] Disaster help - Request for Afilias to extend its deadlines


> Dear ICANN people,
>
> I need to write to you to help convince Afilias to extend their deadline
> for Round One of their Landrush for at least a week.  To be honest, it's
> not the first thing on my mind, given the horrific destruction that
> everyone here witnessed from close quarters on Tuesday.  But for our
> staff, and for our customers, many of whom have offices in lower
> Manhattan, I must ask for your support in this matter.  I believe that
> my request would be echoed by at least one other registrar from New
> York.
>
> NameEngine has been severely affected by the World Trade Center
> disaster.  Our offices are below Canal Street in New York and so we are
> prevented from entering our building until rescue efforts have
> progressed further.  Today I was able to convince the police to let me
> past their cordon in order to examine the state of our facilities.  Our
> power is up, and luckily we have some backup connectivity that allows us
> (slowly) to communicate via the Internet.  Phones work intermittently.
>
> So, just before the Afilias deadline for Round 1 of the Landrush, none
> of our staff have been able to get to work, not that anyone here is able
> to concentrate very well, since several of us have friends who have been
> injured or are missing.
>
> NameEngine will have great difficulty in meeting the current Afilias
> deadline, even if we are allowed into our offices over the weekend.
> Baseball, football, even the stock markets have closed out of respect
> for those injured and killed and because of the tremendous logistical
> challenges -- such as not being allowed in our office -- that the World
> Trade Center bombing has caused.
>
> We have petitioned Afilias directly to extend their deadline past
> Tuesday, and although they have been sympathetic, to date they have not
> directly responded to our request.
>
> I ask the Registrars Constituency and ICANN please to lend your voice to
> our request to Afilias to extend the Round One deadline.  What harm can
> this cause?
>
> With thanks,
>
> Antony Van Couvering
> CEO, NameEngine
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