That is so cheesy.
> From: "Heather Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 09:43:51 -0500
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: Keep renewal money but do not add it to the domain
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> Chuck, I agree with your last statement regarding fiddling with people's
> money. I spoke up on this topic last November and several people agreed it
> was a bad business practice on Internic.ca's part. However, it seemed to be
> a 'buyer beware' problem and apparantly it is buried somewhere in the
> agreement between the client and Internic.ca
>
> It might be frowned on by ICANN, but apparantly has approval with CIRA.
> Please look at the Opensrs archives at:
> http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0111/0692.html This post was
> from Paul Anderson (who sits on CIRA's board of directors).
>
> On my end, I am very aware of the problem as it's affected several of my
> clients already. One of the problems I'm finding is that I don't have any
> easy way of seeing when a domain is up for renewal. The WHOIS says it is
> expiring, but in fact, the client may have paid for several more years.
> Often the client themselves don't know when the 'real' expiry date is
> supposed to be.
>
> Heather Peel
> The Net Now
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Daminato
> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:50 PM
> To: dnsadmin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Keep renewal money but do not add it to the domain
>
>
> This practice is actively frowned upon by ICANN. There were some registrars
> that were doing this; when the domain was transfered the customer all of a
> sudden lost the years (they also were misreporting the whois expire date)
>
> This is close to that; but I don't know what internic.ca does if the domain
> transfers away - do they attempt a refund? Are they tracking? Do they
> maintain accurate enough contact information to get the monies back to the
> registrant?
>
> This, in my mind, is fraud; the money you save by not paying the registry
> fee is insignificant compared to what lawsuits may come your way for
> fiddling with other people's money.
>
> Charles Daminato
> OpenSRS Product Manager
> Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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