[registrars] FW: [Outreach] Subject: RGP Phase II Advisory

[Bhavin Turakhia]

Infact I do believe Chuck from Verisign was working within verisign to
try and change the auto-renew period process so as to charge the
registrars only on explicit renewal, or on the 45th day. It is actually
high time that this happened, considering that margins on domains are so
low, cash flow during peak renewal times always becomes an issue. I
still remember my first registration of shock when a wire I had sent to
verisign disappeared in no time at all :)

bhavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org 
> [mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Paul Stahura
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 9:54 PM
> To: 'Elana Broitman'; registrars at dnso.org; 'bbeckwith at pir.org'
> Subject: RE: [registrars] FW: [Outreach] Subject: RGP Phase 
> II Advisory
> 
> 
> Bruce,
> 
> Thanks for listening to the recommendation/feedback.
> Since you didn't state what exactly are the changes you will 
> be making, I assume you will be changing the registry 
> back-end so that the registry will credit registrars accounts 
> when registrars delete names instead of holding our money 
> until the end of RGP. Can you verify my assumption? If that 
> is your intent, I congratulate you and PIR in this 
> and I look forward to your posting of the release date.
> I am hopeful that Afilias will follow your lead with .info as 
> then they would be the only major registry to not credit on deletion.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Paul
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elana Broitman [mailto:ebroitman at register.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 1:30 AM
> To: registrars at dnso.org
> Subject: [registrars] FW: [Outreach] Subject: RGP Phase II Advisory
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> trying again
> 
> 	-----Original Message----- 
> 	From: Bruce Beckwith [mailto:bbeckwith at pir.org] 
> 	Sent: Thu 10/23/2003 1:41 PM 
> 	To: Elana Broitman 
> 	Cc: 
> 	Subject: FW: [Outreach] Subject: RGP Phase II Advisory
> 	
> 	
> 
> 	Elana,
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	Would you please post the following to the Registrar 
> Constituency mailing list?
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	Though I would not normally request that you consider 
> posting regular communication from PIR to registrars, in this 
> case, this delay in our software implementation is based on 
> the valued feedback we received from members of the Registrar 
> Constituency who posted on the RC mailing list.
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	Thanks in advance.
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 	
> 	Bruce
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: PIR Services 
> 	Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:17 PM
> 	To: outreach at lists.pir.org
> 	Subject: [Outreach] Subject: RGP Phase II Advisory
> 
> 	 
> 
> 	Dear Registrars,
> 
> 	Please be advised that PIR is delaying the release of 
> the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) Phase II automation process 
> for the .ORG TLD, originally scheduled for on 25 October 2003.
> 
> 	We have received feedback from our registrar customers 
> in regard to RGP Phase II.  You have suggested a more 
> efficient method to implement the automation of RGP Phase II, 
> one which will better serve you, our registrars and your 
> customers.  PIR has reviewed and incorporated your 
> recommendations. Based on your valuable feedback, PIR will 
> enhance our software to more effectively meet our customers' 
> needs.  We will inform you shortly of the new RGP Phase II 
> release date.
> 
> 	As part of the originally scheduled outage, PIR was 
> planning on conducting some database maintenance activities.  
> Those activities will still occur; therefore there will be a 
> system outage between 15:00 and 19:00 UTC on 25 October 2003. 
>  During this period, the shared registration system and 
> contact preload system will be unavailable. Registering and 
> manipulating domain names and other registry objects will not 
> be possible but domains will continue to resolve normally.
> 
> 	Also during this maintenance period, the WHOIS service 
> will be interrupted between 15:00 and 17:00 UTC. 
> 
> 	Please note that both .ORG OT&E Systems for EPP and RRP 
> will remain functional during the maintenance and there will 
> be no interruption to registrars performing the OT&E Tests.
> 
> 	PIR appreciates the feedback and continued support from 
> you, our valued registrar customers. 
> 
> 	Regards, 
> 
> 	Bruce Beckwith 
> 	VP, Operations 
> 	Public Interest Registry 
> 	bbeckwith at pir.org 
> 	"Serving the Public Interest" 
> 
> 	 
> 
>