When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, it knocked out a registrar, DirectNIC.&nbsp; I happened to have some stuff hosted with them and no longer do.&nbsp; Apparently it knocked out their DNS servers.<br><br>If a registry should fail, it would cause a much more dramatic failure of the system.&nbsp; There definitely should be a plan in place for such failures, including remote backups, maximum downtime, and a plan to replace the organization handling it.
<br><br>-Randy Glass<br>A@L<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jacqueline A. Morris</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:jam@jacquelinemorris.com">jam@jacquelinemorris.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Dear All</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">ICANN's Registry Failover project has recently provided an update
to the ICANN Board and </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">also </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">gave a presentation to the ccNSO in Lisbon. The GAC Communique
released in Lisbon also contains language on registry failover. In an effort to
reach out directly with ALAC and users, they have posted on the ICANN blog some
of the types of questions that the community, users and public may want
answered in the event of a registry failure. See <a href="http://blog.icann.org/?p=105" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"><span style="color: black;">http://blog.icann.org/?p=105</span>
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Please comment.</span></p>

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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Thanks,</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">&nbsp;</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Jacqueline</span></p>

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