Did I miss something?
> It's ICANN'S thoughtless policy that creates this situation. As I understand
> it, ICANN requires Tucows, NSI, Bulk and everyone else to pay for renewals
> IMMEDIATELY upon expiration. No grace period. No refunds.
What makes you think this?
> If that's the case we have a HUGE conflict of expectation between clients --
> accustomed to getting 45 days grace (or more) from NSI -- and the Registrar's
> who MUST delete the domain to avoid the renewal fees. The result is SUDDEN
> DEATH! No grace. No "on-hold" period. No recourse once the domain is lost. How
> am I doing so far?
At renewal time, if a domain has not been paid, it *does* go on hold. The
registrant has 40 days to pay while it is on hold, if they don't pay, a
deletion request is sent to the registry at the end of 40 days. When the
registry receives the deletion request, they put the domain on a five day
hold before actually removing it. Add it up, it is 45 days after the
expiration before the domain is actually deleted.
> Rather that talk about cost recovery, we should be pressuring ICANN to provide
> -- at a minimum -- a 30 day grace period. Even if the domain goes "on-hold" at
> expiration, the client has at least a reasonable time to cure. Without this
> change in policy, we're all going to see -- or be victimized -- by Sudden
> Death; valuable domains lost due to material laspe of payment, say 2 days
> late. NO ONE WILL STAND FOR THAT! We are only now beginning to see the results
> of this non-sensical policy.
Why do you think ICANN's policy is any different than I have described?
Signed,
Confused
