Special provisions to process registrar request in bulk during a startup period. Bulk processing will be used to provide fairness to registrars. This scheme will effectively select names for registration randomly from registrars. There will be a pre-registration period where trademark holders may provisionally claim names related to their trademarks. Fault Tolerance .
Fault tolerance is based on using redundancy.
Physical redundancy is based on using two or more geographically isolated sites. Communications between sites are duplicated and systems within each site are duplicated. Provisions include capability to maintain system operation and performance even with the complete loss of one site. Geographical redundancy is based on two registry sites and possibly two additional name server sites. Two of the required sites are already in existence and operating in essentially the same manner as the proposed registry and name server sites.