RE: [registrars] FW: invitations to Monday's event on wildcards/finalizing

["Bruce Tonkin" <Bruce.Tonkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Elana,

I do not want to participate in the panel, bu I will attend the event.

One question for the panel to consider.

If wildcard records are allowed in a gtld, why should the registry have
a pre-emptive right to register them on their own behalf?

In .au when we changed the policy allowing records that were previously
unavailable, a process was chosen to allocate those domains (the process
chosen was auction but there are other methods) on a fair and equal
basis.

Also (partly tongue-in-cheek) - are the wildcard records *.com and *.net
now in the Redemption Grace Period?  When will they be available for
re-registration?  I assume if Verisign does not reclaim them in the next
30 days, they should be available in the delete pool.  

Regards,
Bruce




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elana Broitman [mailto:ebroitman@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Sunday, 19 October 2003 7:02 AM
> To: registrars@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [registrars] FW: invitations to Monday's event on 
> wildcards/finalizing
> 
> 
> Anyone coming to Tunisia who is interested in participating 
> on a panel that discusses Wildcard service, please let me 
> know.  This is an opportunity to raise in a public meeting 
> the policy, competition, and other issues that registrars 
> have faced or are concerned with.  
>  
> Regards,
>  
> Elana Broitman