Thanks Wim, That's very useful information.
Yes we certainly didn't want to encourage domain warehousing, 99% of our orders are for 1 or 2 domains. However we made the 'most popular' list of del.icio.us / digg and 90+ blogs. We hit 17'000 sessions on our form before we had to close it. The marketing was a little too successful I guess. We have stopped everything now but really wanted to find out the Tucows position on this promotion. Do they want us registrars to go all out like this? I see that the few we had left in the queue are still sitting there. I have this feeling the Belgium Registry are sitting there thinking what a headache they just gave themselves for the next two months! Best Regards, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com -----Original Message----- From: Wim Godden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:38 PM To: Nick Wilsdon Cc: 'Greg Frank'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [domains-gen] FREE .be domains Hi, DNS BE doesn't allow you to do any kind of domain warehousing. Any customer who does such a thing, will have to pay the full DNS BE pricing (which costs 6EUR for the registrar). The registrar is allowed to register 10 domains for himself during the 'free' period. I'm not sure about the Tucows API, but if you're trying to find out if a .be domain is available, don't use WHOIS. DNS BE has a nice system called DAS (Domain Availability System). More details can be found : http://www.dns.be/en/home.php?n=317 You can query DAS as many times as you like (well, don't go over 50 times per second or they will block it, but as long as you stay reasonable...) Kind regards, Wim Godden FirstLink Networks Nick Wilsdon wrote: > Hi Greg > > I'm guessing the Belgium Registry is having some trouble. Can we get an > update on the situation from your end? I got the feeling they were a little > unprepared for the number of requests/applications yesterday. Another > registrar was quoted quite widely as saying "they wouldn't suggest applying > for more than 500 per nic handle" which didn't help. > > It would be interesting to know roughly how many domains Tucows registered > yesterday though. > > Also the Tucows API check on .be is still falsely reporting. I know this is > a problem affecting a lot of people though, I can only find a few obscure > *.be sites and Godaddy who have a working .be check now. > > Thanks > > Nick > > Managing Director > e3internet > http://www.e3internet.com > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.12.7/155 - Release Date: 01/11/2005 _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
