The registry states that a registrar has no more than 45 days to delete a
domain, after expiry, to state they no longer wish to have the registration.
Otherwise, the registrar is charged for this domain year (whether they want
it or not).
Given that imposed timeframe, we decided to delete at day -40. Rather, as
stated below, we start trying to delete at day -40. We built in a buffer in
case we cannot perform the deletion command (for whatever reason). This
allows us to work within the 45 day limit that is imposed by the registry,
but not flirt with the absolute timeline - just in case.
It is up to each registrar to decide how they will work within the business
rules provided by the registry. We decided at the beginning (and have been
doing this since renewals/expirations started) to delete the domain at
day -40
-- Charles Daminato Life is not holding a good hand; OpenSRS Product Manager Life is playing a poor hand well. Tucows Inc. - chuck@tucows.com - Danish proverb> -----Original Message----- > From: Phillip Beazley [mailto:pb-mls@onvix.com] > Sent: January 17, 2003 1:14 PM > To: Charles Daminato > Cc: discuss-list@opensrs.org > Subject: RE: Disappearing Renewals > > > At 12:52 PM 1/17/2003, Charles Daminato wrote: > > >Eh, no one's fault truly. The registry says "You have 45 days after a > >domain expires to say you don't want it anymore" > > Right. 45 days. This was re-registered by a third party on day 42 or 43. > > >We try to do that on day -40 ... since we only run that batch > daily, if the > >registry is down on one day, we have to retry the next day. We > built in a > >few days of buffer in case it takes us a couple to actually delete the > >domain. We didn't want to have to pay for a renewal on a domain that we > >wanted to delete, just because there was connectivity issues. > > > >The policy a registrar employes is up to them, within the framework and > >limitations imposed by the registry :) > > Okay, just to be clear, who is the 45 days from, you or the registry? > > Anyway, in this case it was broken and we should be able to do something > about that. > > > -- > Phillip Beazley > Onvix -- Website Hosting, Development & E-commerce > Visit http://www.onvix.com/ or call 727-578-9600. >
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