Meeting with .mu registrars

From: S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 09:29:30 -0700

Hello,

I had a meeting with the .mu registrars this morning. Jude Rabbani
from mauritius.biz and Stephanie Lan from registrar.mu were unable to
attend the meeting. There were only two .mu registrars, Benoit
Gentil from Fody Technologies and Neetish Khorugdharry from
Cybernaptics at the meeting.

I gave a presentation about "whether there is a .mu problem" as an
introduction. I then asked for the .mu registrars to comment about
the topic. Benoit Gentil considered that USD 50 for a .mu domain
name is quite expensive. He commented that there isn't a margin to
sell .mu domain name to clients. He mentioned that there is USD 50
transfer fee and a USD 50 renewal free for a registrant to transfer a
.mu domain name. Benoit Gentil considered the lack of automation
between .mu registrars as a problem; it sometimes takes several days
to get a .mu domain transferred from one .mu registrar to the
other. There wasn't a proper accreditation process for .mu
registrars; anyone with more than 20 .mu domain names can become a
registrar. He also mentioned that there isn't a grace period after a
domain name expires. In his opinion, there wasn't any technical
problem with .mu.

Neetish Khorugdharry did not notice any major technical issues. He
commented that there was a problem with www.nic.mu web site which
lasted several days last year. The renewal of a domain name can only
be done on the day the domain name expire. He considered that as a problem.

At the end of the meeting I asked the .mu registrars whether they are
of the opinion that there is a .mu problem and they agreed that there
was a problem.

Benoit Gentil and I met Frederic de Comarmond from goCloud in the
afternoon as he was unable to attend the meeting. We discussed about
the .mu ccTLD. Frederic de Comarmond commented that the issues are
due to a communication problem between the .mu registry and the .mu
registrars. He suggested that the .mu registrars have a meet the .mu
registry to discuss about their problems. At the end of that meeting
I asked him whether there was a .mu problem. Frederic de Comarmond
stated that there isn't a .mu problem.

I would be grateful if the other .mu registrars could comment about
whether there is a .mu problem or not by 16 March. If there aren't
any comments I will consider that the other .mu registrars do not
have any opinion about whether there is a .mu problem or not.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Fri Mar 13 2015 - 16:30:28 PST

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