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Paul Gill |
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Tue, August 14, 2001 at 1:16 PM GMT |
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The way I understand it, any ICANN accredited registrar can register .info names
when the registry moves to real time (approval from Afilias is not needed). Prior
to this (Sunrise and Land Rush), a registrar would need to be accredited by Afilias
in addition to ICANN to participate. So you are right, the clarification needs to
be made. I have pre-registered .info names through several registrars and by my count
there are about 40 ICANN accredited registrars taking .info pre-registrations (resellers
like Tucows are only counted once - who use there services are not counted because
they only get one submission per round just like everyone else). There are about
60 registrars who are Afilias accredited and another 20 having pending status and
possibly more on the way. Therefore, prior to Sunrise we can expect at least
80 to be Afilias approved. In the past couple of weeks, hardly any registrars
have been adding pre-registration so I don't expect more than a couple more to do
it before Land Rush. That means about half will be submitting there own lists and
will end up with more (because there lists will be so short compared to the non-scamming
registrars) than half the best names not taken during Sunrise.
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