Ok, as a follow up to this.
Dave Warren was kind enough to offer up a test domain (which we were kind
enough to renew for him). Turns out that if someone uses renew.cgi, they
will charge the renewal (which gets charged to the Reseller hosting the
renew.cgi, not the domain sponsoring RSP - which is the way it's supposed
to be). Unfortunately, setting "auto-renew" also alters the flag in the
other reseller's account.
We'll have to either disable that, or get notification sent to the current
sponsoring RSP. This potentially means that this has already happened,
and if you're paranoid you might want to check. It wont affect you for at
least a year (since the domain has a year added on), but... you never
know.
I'll keep everyone posted. There'll likely be some announcement made
regarding this to all resellers. (Hope that doesn't inadvertantly give
them ideas...).
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
> William,
>
> I just gave this a try - and the answer is yes. I can login to a domain
> (say, one sponsored by "chuck") at another RSPs interface (say, "chuck2"),
> and turn on Auto-Renew. However, the "chuck2" RSP will pay for the
> initial renewal. You cannot just turn Auto-Renew "on" (unless you're the
> sponsoring RSP), via renew.cgi you have to auto-renew first.
>
> We'll have to work on that, at least to give the sponsoring RSP notice
> that the domain's renewal status has changed (remember, I did this in
> Horizon, which has slightly disabled renewal management).
>
> If you use manage.cgi, you get this:
>
> Set Auto-Renew Request Failure! Reason:Fail (only sponsoring RSP can set
> auto-renew for <domain>)
>
> So for manage, you cannot set auto-renew blindly (which does not require
> you to renew).
>
> To be certain with renew.cgi, you'd have to try it with a domain on the
> live system - I'm willing to move a domain to my RSP account if you have
> one you're willing to test to be sure.
>
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, William X. Walsh wrote:
>
> > Hello Charles,
> >
> > Sunday, June 24, 2001, 6:31:51 PM, Charles Daminato wrote:
> >
> > > Simply means it's off by default. Upon consideration, we have a warning
> > > that "if you turn it on, be careful", yet we had it on anyway. So we
> > > thought it prudent to have it off by default - so you're concious about
> > > what you're about to do :)
> >
> > Ok, and let's say that an RSP has it on (just to clarify a concern I
> > know some have raised in the past, but I can't find a definite answer
> > on as far as current practice).
> >
> > Can another RSP's client login to that RSP's interface and turn on
> > Auto-Renew from there?
> >
> > And if so, what can be done to control this?
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> >
> >
>
>
