At 3/26/02 10:52 AM, Colin Viebrock wrote: >And, if you are concerned about providing notice and preventing mis-use, you >could build it so that, when the let_expire flag is set via the API (or RWI >for that matter), an email is automatically sent to the owner/admin contact >of the domain: > > This is to confirm your intention to let your domain EXAMPLE.COM > expire on April 1, 2002 and *not* to be renewed. Your domain will > stop functioning on or shortly after this date. > > If this is not your intention, contact .... > >Well, you get the idea. And I'm sure you pay people to write those message >better than I can. :)
Even if you set the "Let Domain Expire" flag in the RWI now, there is still a single 5-day "final warning" sent to the customer, which I think is a reasonable compromise. You can jigger the message text a little to send something like "This is a final reminder that domain.name will expire in five days. You should have already received instructions explaining how to renew your domain name if you wish to keep it. If you don't wish to keep it, the domain name will expire and be made available for others to register." It's good to have a final warning, even if they've previously told you they don't want to renew it. And it's better to have it around the time it expires -- people might change their minds between the time they told you they didn't want to renew it and the time it expires. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was."
