Well ... we don't really know that Afilias is a well-established registry operator, do we? Do they meet their SLAs? Does their code conform with the EPP spec? How's internal performance? Are security procedures really in place?There are no public studies by reputable sources that have examined the technical performance of the Afilias registries and I certainly don't see any public facilities available that allow me to make that assessment.The paper trail stops. I can't do technical due diligence and it is pretty clear that nobody doing the .org evaluations did any due diligence. That may be appropriate for pitching a .com business plan or writing an OSI standard, but it isn't my understanding of how you run a public service on the Internet.
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