> Then again, if you have 17.000 .be registrations, why not become a .be agent yourself >? I'd even point you to a different reseller, if Tucows can't handle it properly...
Hi Wim Not quite 17'000 registrations - that was sessions. However we're close to 3000 applications sitting here. I am pretty sure if we turn on the page (and marketing) we could do that each day. I like sticking with Tucows - esp. with the developments on the new CCS. And, these are after all, free registrations. I can understand that there is little reason to free up resources there to put them through. Basically the only reason we can do this here is that I have so many staff. If Russians are good at anything - it's bringing plenty of manpower (or woman power in the case of our office, but that is another story!) I guessed this was probably the reason I only noticed two other registrars offering this promotion? If we get the green light from Tucows, we'll put together a script and run these through in larger numbers. There is obviously a demand here - if they want that, we can bring these numbers in. Best Regards, Nick Managing Director e3internet http://www.e3internet.com -----Original Message----- From: Wim Godden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 4:11 PM To: Nick Wilsdon Cc: 'Greg Frank'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [domains-gen] FREE .be domains Hi Nick, I don't see any problems with 17.000 registrations. I think DNS BE will be very happy to see those registrations. And I'm absolutely sure they can handle that load. When .be was released for everyone, they got that amount in just a few hours. Their systems are much better now than they were in 2000, so it shouldn't be a problem at all. Don't know if they haven't blocked Tucows though. Then again, if you have 17.000 .be registrations, why not become a .be agent yourself ? I'd even point you to a different reseller, if Tucows can't handle it properly... Kind regards, Wim Godden FirstLink Networks Nick Wilsdon wrote: > 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 -- 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
