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Old 02-28-2006, 08:00 PM  
Brujah
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Originally Posted by Pornwolf
Here's a question, how is the bidding decided? Do they all petition ICANN with the highest bid... or is it a question of who's request gets through first.

Or maybe it's a combination. I dunno. Anyone got insight into the process?
They use allotted slots to pound the fuck out of the registry every microsecond to be the 1st to grab a name. The more successful ones have deals with lots of registrar fronts each with their own allotted slots of bandwidth to attempt a register in parallel.
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