Svetoslav Marinov’s Blog

I just visted an interesting site and I decided to check its WHOIS info.

Here is what I've found.

The registrar or the owner have entered information about their services in the domain's WHOIS info.

Click the image below.

To read more about domain WHOIS information go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOIS

Today I will be commenting on OpenSRS downtime notifications.

I like the message structure very much.

Please note that we will be conducting the following network maintenance at our data center:

Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009
Time: 03:00 - 07:00 UTC
Duration: 4 hours
Your local time:
http://opensrs.info/July19start to http://opensrs.info/July19end

Service Impact:

We will use this time to upgrade our core routers to accommodate 10 Gigabit cards. To minimize the impact on your services, traffic will be routed through secondary routers. This action should limit
the actual down time to approximately 15 minutes within the 4 hour window.

The following OpenSRS Services will be briefly affected:

* OpenSRS Provisioning and Management (includes the RWI: ordering, renewals, transfers, deletion and management of domain names.)
* Storefront (includes ordering, renewals, deletion and management of domain names.)
* Provisioning of Digital Certificates (SSL) and Managed DNS
* Blogware
* Website Builder

All domains will continue to resolve.

As always, we will keep you informed of any changes through System Status (http://status.opensrs.com/).

Thank you for your continued support of OpenSRS.

Rasons
#1 The first thing it answers different questions
what will change and what it will affect,
When will it happen, the duration etc.

#2 Local time links
the links http://opensrs.info/July point to http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=19&year=2009&hour=3&min=0&sec=0&p1=0
which gives you a table and you can find your time

#3 Status page where users can see which services are running at the moment.
http://status.opensrs.com/

Good job.

P.S.

I have decided to post this article because several months ago I criticised OpenSRS about the look of the reseller control panel.
It looks so 90s by the way.
They promised that they would skip web 2.0 and would go straight to 3.0 by the end of the year (2009)
That was quite funny actually.
With this article I want to show that I can see the good things as well

In the beginning of this month (Feb / 2009) .TEL entered in"Langrush"

Here is a quote from Wikipedia
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.tel is a top-level domain (TLD) approved by ICANN as a sponsored TLD and operated by Telnic.

Its advertised purpose is as a single management and publishing point for "internet communication" services, providing a global contacts directory service by housing all types of contact information directly in the Domain Name System(DNS).
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Pricing: $329.60US including a three-year registration on a first-come, first-served basis.

Another quote from Wikipedia
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In contrast to other top-level domains the .tel information is held directly within the Domain Name System (DNS) within the actual domain name record. As opposed to the DNS simply returning details (such as IP addresses) of the machines on which information can be found.
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The question is why would one pay 329.60 USD for 3 years (and 20 USD after that) ?

Why .TEL was approved at all while the DNS records could have been applied to already existing domains ?

Who needs more .SOMETHING ?

Pros
- Short domain names could be available?
- Google may favour them in near future e.g. in personalized search ?

Cons
- Pricey
- All pages look alike ?

Are there any other pros and cons of using .tel ?

What is your opinion ?

Related

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tel
2. http://telnic.org
3. http://www.domainmarvelous.com/featured_articles/reasons-register-tel-domain-part/