>Hmm, i see it as a courtesy to the domain holder to protect their interest.
>A courtesy that is potentially much more valuable to the present user/holder
>than the benefit of making the domain available to someone else at the date
>of expiry. Also, the grace period could be fixed at 90 days, which still
>could allow for possible new domain owners to plan for the mad dash to
>register that domain.
I think we should agree to disagree on this topic.
You (as a reseller or registrar) can show all the courtesy you want
to your customer, EXCEPT when it deprives ME (or anyone, really) the
right to register a domain that is not bought-and-paid-for already.
You want to show the courtesy to your customer? You pay for it, keep
it alive and out of the pool and recoup your expense and maybe a nice
added "emergency rescue fee". Don't hold a domain out of the general
populace without anyone paying for it.
>In a perfect world, everyone's paperwork is in order, but the idea of a
>grace period leaves room for error. Remember, that in some cases, it could
>be a TEN YEAR period that we are talking about here.
That's where the reseller/registrar comes in, notifying their
customer far in advance "hey this is coming due".. Start trying to
notify them way in advance, and that will give you time to track them
down if the normal avenues of communication have deteriorated due to
customer-mismanagement.
D
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