Your understanding of our renewal system is correct, but I believe our
policy is going to stick.
You can always entice your customers to renew sooner than the 1 year period,
say 30 days in advance (just a suggestion) :)
Charles Daminato
OpenSRS Product Manager
Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of David Harris
> Sent: July 20, 2001 2:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: domain expiration feature request
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This is how I understand the OpenSRS renewal procedure works: Please
> correct me if I am wrong.
>
> (1) At the date if expiration, OpenSRS places the domain "on hold" or some
> other state which causes the name to be deactivated and removed from the
> root zone files. However, the name is still owned by the user and not
> available for registration by anyone else. The user may renew
> this domain at
> any time and service will be restored.
>
> (2) 40 days after the expiration date, OpenSRS issues a DELETE. The record
> for the domain is then fully dropped and sometime later will become
> available for new registrations.
>
> I'd like to something different. :-) I would like to have the
> domain placed
> "on hold" not on the date of expiration, but some grace period time
> afterwards, say 10 days. Then 40 days after expiration the domain could be
> deleted just as it is now.
>
> I want this because I'm implementing automatic renewals for
> domains attached
> to automatically renewing hosting accounts. (There is really no
> point in my
> automatically renewing a quarter of hosting service for $75 and NOT
> automatically renewing the domain name for $15!) My problem occurs if when
> renewing my customer's service their credit card is declined. I don't want
> to spend money renewing the domain until I have been paid. I'd like to
> notify the customer of this problem and keep their website
> running during a
> grace period of 10 days. THEN, I'll temporally disable their
> website waiting
> for payment. Then, say a month later, I delete their website from my
> servers.
>
> With the way OpenSRS works right now, because I don't renew the customer's
> domain, their service will be discontinued with NO grace period
> because the
> domain is immediately suspended waiting for the renewal. This isn't too
> cool.
>
> See the problem?
>
> So, I propose the following: There be a new configuration parameter in the
> resellers.opensrs.net site where we can specify how many days
> after a domain
> expires until it is placed "on hold". Everyone can start with the
> default of
> zero days, as things work now. I could then set this to 10 days, to
> implement my policy.
>
> Can this happen?
>
> David
>
>
