Among the member companies of Affilias there is a great deal of technical knowledge about the DNS and the design and operation of large, fault tolerant systems, including the development of registry software. The Applicant suggests that these people could be made available to Affilias in case of need. Applicants are registrars and are currently involved with related software development activities. After a two year term applicant has the right to purchase the sub-contractor developed software and operate the registry directly. Advancing the State of the Art .
Applicant proposes to include additional, unspecified information in the registry database.
Whois would be centralized and would be kept up to date in almost real time. Zone maps will be updated at five minute intervals. Other Comments . C. Business Review Applicant s Representations . Afilias, LLC is an organization recently formed by 19 different accredited registrars to establish and operate an unsponsored, unrestricted generic top-level domain registry.