I support 30 days and see no harm in it. A safe compromise.
But what we MUST have is certainty not NSI's "now you see it now you don't"
policy of not releasing expired names. I know several with over a year
since expiry.
I have phoned NSI who told me they're batched up and released after "about 3
months" after expiry. They said that any exceptions I noted must be because
of special circumstances (like arguments about whether payment has, in fact,
been made).
Personally I don't believe a word of it.
Regards
Patrick Corliss
----- Original Message -----
From: Derek J. Balling <dredd@megacity.org>
To: Swerve <shwa@swerve.com>; Chuck Hatcher <chatcher@ashland-ky.net>;
<discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: Transfer of domain questions.: Let's make things safe andSmart.
> >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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