On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Chuck Hatcher wrote:
> So the cost of the renewal is charged to the RSP running the renewal script,
> regardless of which RSP registered the domain name?
Yes.
> If so, what's to stop me from setting up a renewal site charging $11.00, and
> soliciting renewal business from all the clients of all the other RSP's?
> And not have to provide any RSP support or value-added services to those
> clients?
>
> Wow.
Well, we could stop you.
You would also have to deal with the customers (collect money) as
well as try and market to them and assume costs. Not to mention the
fact that customers who are well served by their RSPs won't even consider
trading in their RSP for someone who competes strictly on price.
Not to mention the fact that a competent RSP will be able to easily
contact the registrants, whereas your rogue RSP would need to use some
less conventional method (UCE), and likely have some fall out associated
with that.
What is to stop you from running a transfer promotion to compete
with other RSPs today? How do you compete with all those services that
sell below cost?
Honestly, if this becomes an issue it is not hard to change it. The
reasons behind leaving it unrestricted are:
- we generally try and engineer processes to be as simple and open as
possible
- without RSP to RSP transfers automated it simplifies domain renewal for
registrants who are not happy with their current RSP, or whose RSP does
not respond
Regards,
sA
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