The .EU Landrush Fiasco 259
googleking writes "Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of GoDaddy.com, has blogged about the .EU landrush fiasco. During the landrush phase for names which opened last Friday, established 'big name' registrars got exactly equal chances of registering names as did anyone who chose to bill themselves as a registrar. Bob asserts that hundreds of these new 'registrars' are actually fake fronts for a big name US company." From the article: "Here's how it works: All the accredited registrars line up and each registrar gets to make one request for a .EU domain name. If the name is available, the registrar gets the name for its customer. If the name is not available, the registrar gets nothing. Either way, after making the request, the registrar goes to the back of the line and won't get to make another request, until all the registrars in the line in front of it make their requests. This continues until all requests have been made and the landrush process is over ... The landrush process on the surface seems very fair. But there was something wrong with the process -- very wrong."
This is why.... (Score:5, Funny)
Good leaning experience for .xxx (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The message is clear: (Score:5, Funny)
Pisses me off... (Score:5, Funny)
Dave
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Unfair? (Score:5, Funny)
* People set up process that my 5-year old niece would have realized wouldn't work.
* Process doesn't work.
Seems pretty fair to me.
May I Be The First To Say... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Problem with Queuing (Score:3, Funny)
Try that in a queue in Northern Ireland and you'll have one person holding twenty teeth in their hands, and rightly so.
TWW
Re:Who said business is fair? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't know... There are several people from Nigeria who write every day wanting to share their wealth with me! Some of them are moving to Russia, too, because I get emails from them also!
Re:"DNS servers too busy" (Score:1, Funny)