On 2012-05-31 16:16 , Simon Lyall wrote:
[date priority] A possible problem with that is that when I check who I find that the "domain_dateregistered" of any domain is no earlier than early-1997 even for domains that were registered earlier than that (such as waikato.ac.nz or vuw.ac.nz )
IIRC all those 1997ish dates were put on when the records were imported by Domainz, from Waikato. I suspect at this point any "pre-Domainz" data is probably long gone. (And given that Domainz did various ``tidying up'' -- some of which I recall having to pay them to put back into something approximating the state it was before they ``tidied up'' -- I'm not sure I'd personally trust data older than the import into NZRS.) From a date-priority point of view, amongst the same 3LDs in various 2LDs, I suspect that there'd be relatively few conflicts that predate the NZRS import. So the remaining list is probably small enough to check by hand, and negotiate with the people/organisations involved if there isn't an obvious solution. Ewen