The company proposes to throttle registration demand during the initial period by batch processing registrar requests. This approach should be successful in controlling the load during the initial operating period. Available of Human, Operational and Technical Resources to Cope with Unexpected Events . 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.