.ME Launch Schedule – Montenegro ccTLD Release Information
Posted on | March 25, 2008 | No Comments
Well the .ME Launch schedule has been posted. I figured due to the lack of time to write my rant post on BS issues that have been pissing me off and no real news going around, I’d post the schedule of the .ME tld Launch.
Background Information on .ME:
.ME is the ccTLD for Montenegro (Population of about 680,000).
This follows Montenegro’s June 3, 2006 declaration of independence from Serbia and Montenegro, which used the code YU.
The .me registry is operated by the University of Montenegro on behalf of the government. A two-year transition period is to be provided for existing .yu names to be transferred to .me.
In addition to declaring .me to be independent of .yu, a new .rs domain is to be deployed for Serbian use.
March 25, 2008
Rollout Schedule
March 24:
- Registration of Government second level domains
Migration from cg.yu to co.me/org.me/net.me/its.me – Montenegro only
March 25 to April 16:
- accepting requests for migration from cg.yu to co.me/org.me/net.me/its.me
April 18 to 21:
- requests processed and domains go live
May 1-May 6: Montenegrin Sunrise
- Only applications from Montenegrin entities are allowed and will be submitted directly.
- Applications from Montenegrin Sunrise will be evaluated in the Quiet Period, along with applications
from the General Sunrise. If there were multiple applications for a domain, a Montenegrin Sunrise
applicant will compete in auction with General Sunrise applicants.
May 6-May 20: General Sunrise
- All accredited registrars allowed into registry.
- Application info available to registrars (via EPP and Web Admin Tool) but not via WHOIS
- Ongoing registrar accreditations.
May 20-June 6: Quiet Period
- Registry closed to registrars; domain queries may be possible.
- 5-day or 7-day Sunrise auctions held for names that received multiple applications. Names for which
there was only one application are allocated via batch job. Application info will not be available to
registrars; names show up in WHOIS only after they are allocated.
- Domains are billed for at the time of allocation.
- Compliance checking will continue through the Quiet Period
- Newly accredited registrars can be set up in this period in preparation for Landrush.
June 6-June 26: Landrush
- Landrush application info available to registrars (via EPP and Web Admin Tool) but not via WHOIS
- Newly accredited registrars can be set up in this period.
- Sunrise Challenges begin
June 26-July 15: Quiet Period
- Registry closed to registrars; domain queries may be possible.
- 5-day or 7-day Landrush auctions held for names that received multiple applications. Names for
which there was only one application are allocated. Application info may be available to registrars;
names show up in WHOIS after they are allocated.
- Domains are billed for at the time of allocation.
July 17: Open Registration
- Domain names are registered on a first-come, first-served basis
“Premium Names” auctions
- Expected to begin in September 2008.
Some background information about .ME taken from Wikipedia.
Personal comments:
I’m not jumping aboard the .ME ship… well… most likely not.
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