[registrars] Aug 18th drop - why WLS??

["David Wascher" <dwascher@iaregistry.com>]

I thought I would post this information from this past Sundays drop.
This is a list of names from Aug 18,2002 that were requested the most from
our resellers. As you can see, these names were registered by several
competitive registrars.
BLACKGIRLSNUDE.COM  - stargateinc.com
JOESCARTOONS.COM    - directi.com
JOESCARTOON.COM     - addresscreation.com
DCJOBS.COM          - addresscreation.com
BOOTCAMPS.COM       - paycenter.com.cn
BIGVINE.COM         - awregistry.net
ABA.NET             - networksolutions.com
AMI.NET             - iaregistry.com
3P.ORG              - networksolutions.com
CTW.NET             - omnis.com
AZX.COM             - melbourneit.com
AUR.COM             - eastcom.com
COLLEGEHOCKEY.COM   - domaindiscover.com

I have also provided the remaining dispersal of the 70 names that were
submitted to us and that did drop. Out of this 23 DIFFERENT COMPETITIVE
registrars / resellers got names.

     7  STARGATE COMMUNICATIONS, INC.          whois.stargateinc.com
     6  PARAVA NETWORKS INC DBA REGISTRATEYA.C whois.parava.net
     4  ADDRESS CREATION                    whois.addresscreation.com
     4  BULKREGISTER.COM, INC.                 whois.bulkregister.com
     4  A TECHNOLOGY COMPANY, INC. D/B/A NAMES whois.namesystem.com
     3  ASCIO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.               whois.ascio.net
     3  EASTERN COMMUNICATIONS CO., LTD.       whois.eastcom.com
     3  THE REGISTRY AT INFO AVENUE D/B/A IA R whois.iaregistry.com
     3  WOOHO T&C LTD., D/B/A RGNAMES.COM      whois.rgnames.com
     3  KEY-SYSTEMS GMBH                       whois.rrpproxy.net
     2  ALLDOMAINS.COM INC.                    whois.alldomains.com
     2  DOMAINPEOPLE, INC.                     whois.domainpeople.com
     2  1 ENAMECO.                             whois.e-names.org
     2  MELBOURNE IT, LTD. D/B/A INTERNET NAME whois.melbourneit.com
     2  OMNIS NETWORK, LLC                     whois.omnis.com
     2  XIN NET CORP.                          whois.paycenter.com.cn
     2  BOOKMYNAME SAS                         whois.worldnet.net
     1  R&K GLOBALBUSINESSSERVICES,INC. DBA 00 whois.000domains.com
     1  BLUEBERRY HILL COMM., INC. DBA 4DOMAIN whois.4domains.com
     1  ALL WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC. D/B/A AW whois.awregistry.net
     1  DIRECT INFORMATION PVT. LTD., DBA DIRE whois.directi.com
     1  VENTURE.CO, INC. DBA DOMAINCITY        whois.domaincity.com
     1  DOMAINDISCOVER                         whois.domaindiscover.com
     1  DOMAINZOO.COM, INC.                    whois.domainzoo.com
     1  HANGANG SYSTEMS, INC. D/B/A DOREGI.COM whois.doregi.com
     1  DOMAIN REGISTRATION SERVICES           whois.dotearth.com
     1  INNERWISE, INC. D/B/A ITSYOURDOMAIN.CO whois.itsyourdomain.com
     1  NETEKA, INC. DBA NAMESBEYOND.COM       whois.namesbeyond.com
     1  NAMESCOUT CORP                         whois.namescout.com
     1  UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION SERVICES, INC.  whois.newdentity.com
     1  TUCOWS, INC.                           whois.opensrs.net
     1  REGISTRATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.     whois.registrationtek.com
     1  TOTALREGISTRATIONS               whois.totalregistrations.com
    10  NETWORK SOLUTIONS, INC.  **NO DROP**

The orginal problem was a connection overload at VeriSign - then VeriSign
turned that into the WLS.

If you look even SnapNames registrars got several names on the list. So just
about every one got a piece of the action.