At 9/2/03 4:19 PM, George Kirikos wrote:
>I think they likely used the word "revoke", because technically only
>the registry ever deletes domains --- if you "revoke" a domain, it
>would go into Redemption Grace Period, and not be actually deleted
>(unless it was in the first few days of the registration, in which case
>it wouldn't go through RGP).
Right. From the description, though, it appears that it is exactly this;
domains can be deleted only during the initial five days, registry
allowing.
A few thoughts on this. First, thanks, OpenSRS; this was the main feature
missing from the domain registration service. We were quite seriously
planning to leave OpenSRS for another registrar (to the extent that we
had opened an account with another company), primarily due to this
weakness. This changes things considerably.
Secondly, I am pleased to find a refreshing lack of fine print. I was
afraid that the details would say something like "domains can only be
deleted with the permission of the registrant". That would make it useful
in the case of accidental typos (assuming one could get the customer to
confirm the deletion within five days, which is doubtful given the
transfer process track record), but useless for deleting domain
registrations that are determined to be fraudulent upon human review the
next day, which is the main reason I want it (we lost several hundred
dollars to domain fraud last month -- nearly all through expensive .cc
and .tv domains, which we no longer sell as a result). I'm hoping the
lack of fine print means the policy is something as simple as "resellers
must not abuse this privilege or they'll use the right to use it", which
would be fine.
Thirdly, it would be nice if there was some kind of uniform terminology
for this, because people are already confused. The update referred to
"revoking" domains, whereas the QuickStart Guide refers to "deleting"
them by choosing a RWI option to "refund" them.
Finally, the update mentioned that this functionality had already been
promoted to Horizon, but I don't see it in the Horizon RWI (perhaps it's
buried in a submenu and I don't know where to look?).
-- Robert Mathews, Tiger Technologies"Clever things make people feel stupid, and unexpected things make them feel scared."
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