When will the expired domain name waiting list service start?
No definite date has yet been fixed. It was originally hoped that WLS would be launched soon after March 20th 2002. But objections were raised by the Internet community and consequently, although the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the group that manages the Internet’s domain name system, has meantime given the green light, the new waiting list service (WLS) has not yet been implemented. One of the conditions set by ICANN for the approval of the WLS scheme was that: “Subscriptions under the WLS … shall not be taken by VeriSign Global Registry Services until at least six months … after implementation of the Redemption Grace Period…” so we estimate that the waiting list service (WLS) may start about July 2003. But there have already been many delays in this process so please don’t blame us if our guess turns out to be wrong!
