At 1/10/01 6:43 PM, Jim McAtee wrote:
>With the "renew anywhere" implementation, someone brought up the possibility
>of an RSP offering cheap renewals, maybe $11 per year, and then marketing
>directly to your registration customers. If the RSP to RSP procedure is
>made totally transparent to the end user, and truly no different from
>registrar to registrar transfers, what's to prevent exactly the same
>situation?
The end user (admin contact) would have to approve a "transfer" with a
separate step, the same way they have to approve a transfer from NSI to
OpenSRS.
So it would be "transparent" in the sense that it would work the same as
other transfers, but not "invisible"; the customer would no longer be
"attached" to your RSP account after making this change.
The current "renew anywhere" scheme is invisible (someone can renew
elsewhere without agreeing to a transfer and still be "attached" to your
RSP account, which I think most people have a problem with). That's the
problem that RSP transfers should solve.
>Then again, is this situation any different than someone that sells/resells
>registrations from another registrar contacting those same customers when
>their domain registration comes due?
No. It's just to make it behave the same way.
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
