As Chuck said, it's not up to NetSol (not the registrar unit anyways).
I just moved easydns.net over a few days ago and it appears as though
our time was carried forward.
My guess is it was a glitch in this particular domain and a clueless
support guy on the other end of the phone.
-mark
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Scott Fraser wrote:
>
> it does benefit network solutions because it makes people afraid to transfer to
>another registrar
>
> it makes sense to me that network solutions would initiate such a "policy" just to
>take away that one selling point from competing, smaller, registrars .. i am
>surprised that they did not do this before .. maybe their marketing staff was at the
>microsoft "competition management" seminar that week
>
> -s.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: A. M. Salim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, 25. January 2001 16:19
> > To: OpenSRS Developers List
> > Subject: Registry transfers lose remaining time now?
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has the registry xfer policy changed regarding transfer of
> > remaining time
> > from NetSol to OpenSRS ?
> >
> > Up until now, any domain xfers I did from NetSol carried over
> > the balance
> > of time left with NetSol, and Tucows added one year to it.
> >
> > Apparently this has now changed.
> >
> > A client renewed a domain with NetSol (paid them $35 for 1
> > year), then did
> > a registry xfer from NetSol to OpenSRS (adding another year,
> > toal 2 years
> > according to my simple math). The xfer went through OK but OpenSRS is
> > showing the domain expires next year, not 2 years from now.
> >
> > How so?
> >
> > I called up NetSol and the person I spoke with adamantly insisted that
> > this is correct: any domain xfer away from NetSol loses any
> > time left on
> > the domain. Apparently this is spelt out in their policy
> > though I could
> > not see where (nor could the NetSol person but she still adamantly
> > insisted that that's the policy). I asked if this is new and
> > did not get a
> > straight answer.
> >
> > So Tucows folks, please help me out here, what is the real answer?
> >
> > Should we stop telling our clients that we will transfer the
> > balance of
> > the time remaining on their account ? When did this change
> > anyway, and
> > how come it changed so quietly? That was a big selling point
> > for us. If
> > this is true, did this happen on NetSol's request or Tucows
> > request? I
> > can't imagine NetSol benefits from this much, so if this is
> > true, perhaps
> > this was initiated by Tucows? And knowing Tucows, this would
> > be way out
> > of character for Tucows (but not NetSol) so I am really puzzled by all
> > this ... H-E-L-P !!!
> >
> > best regards
> > Mike Salim.
> >
>
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mark jeftovic
http://www.easydns.com
http://mark.jeftovic.net
