.io, .sh, .ac: Transition to Afilias registry system and significant changes
Afilias will be the new technical back-end provider for the Internet Computer
Bureau (ICB Registry). The transition of the registry system for the ccTLDs .io,
.sh and .ac to the Afilias registry system will be processed from June 10 (15:00
UTC) until June 11, 2017 (06:00 UTC).
*As a consequence, the domain life cycle of .io, .sh and .ac will be adjusted to
the standard gTLD life cycle.*
*The main changes in an overview, effective as of June 11:*
* Domain name operations for .io, .sh and .ac domains will be processed
identically to .info domain operations.
* Domain names may be registered and renewed for a period of 1 to 10 years.
* There will be the normal 60-day transfer prohibited status on all new creates.
* After migration to the Afilias registry system, domains upon expiry will be
auto-renewed and the relevant grace period (45 days) will apply. Names that
may have expired but not been deleted from the registry system (prior to the
migration) will be automatically renewed and will remain in Autorenew Grace
Period for 45 days.
* Support of all IDNs that are available at the Afilias registry system.
Info provided by RRPproxy
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Piffle I was using the direct nic.io to take advantage of the huge 90 day Redemption Grace Period
Wow, lots of Pros and Cons, not sure if this will be good or bad overall.
Most likely there won't be a direct nic.io backorder anymore, and MAYBE this means normal people will be able to beat out park.io on drops - that would be nice, yet the direct backorder was cool, except for the zero refund policy.
HOPEFULLY, this will drop the price for registration and renewals.
Right now, I have a few domains I'm still floating in RGP, I will contact nic.io and see what do do with them, my best guess is I will have to renew before the June 10th deadline : bummer :
Anyone with more information please share!
Afilias will be the new technical back-end provider for the Internet Computer
Bureau (ICB Registry). The transition of the registry system for the ccTLDs .io,
.sh and .ac to the Afilias registry system will be processed from June 10 (15:00
UTC) until June 11, 2017 (06:00 UTC).
*As a consequence, the domain life cycle of .io, .sh and .ac will be adjusted to
the standard gTLD life cycle.*
*The main changes in an overview, effective as of June 11:*
* Domain name operations for .io, .sh and .ac domains will be processed
identically to .info domain operations.
* Domain names may be registered and renewed for a period of 1 to 10 years.
* There will be the normal 60-day transfer prohibited status on all new creates.
* After migration to the Afilias registry system, domains upon expiry will be
auto-renewed and the relevant grace period (45 days) will apply. Names that
may have expired but not been deleted from the registry system (prior to the
migration) will be automatically renewed and will remain in Autorenew Grace
Period for 45 days.
* Support of all IDNs that are available at the Afilias registry system.
Info provided by RRPproxy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Piffle I was using the direct nic.io to take advantage of the huge 90 day Redemption Grace Period
Wow, lots of Pros and Cons, not sure if this will be good or bad overall.
Most likely there won't be a direct nic.io backorder anymore, and MAYBE this means normal people will be able to beat out park.io on drops - that would be nice, yet the direct backorder was cool, except for the zero refund policy.
HOPEFULLY, this will drop the price for registration and renewals.
Right now, I have a few domains I'm still floating in RGP, I will contact nic.io and see what do do with them, my best guess is I will have to renew before the June 10th deadline : bummer :
Anyone with more information please share!