This actually has happened with one registrar (whom I won't name) and there was considerable stink raised about it by the community and ICANN. The practice stopped immediately, and I believe there was even some refunds given.
Since *we* can determine the exact date, if you transfer a name to us and find that you've lost some years, we can track where those years were lost. Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Dave Warren wrote: > > Remember that the "expiry" date reported by a registrar via whois may not > > necessarily reflect the actual values held in the registry, which we > > honour. > > There isn't any way to determine the date stored by the registry, is there? > I'm worried that some enterprising (cash grabbing) registrar will start soft > renewing in their own database, and not push the renewals out to the > registry at all, just let the automatic registry renewal handle it. This > allows them to screw customers, save money (By investing the money, rather > then giving it to Verisign), and with a bit of smallprint they could > probably get away with it (Small print to the effect that upon transferring > away, you forfit any/all remaining years on your domain, blahblahblah) > > This potentially means that under some circumstances, when tranferring > registrars, time paid to a previous registry will not be honoured, and as a > result, we should be more careful when informing our clients about this. > > > -- > The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their own. > > >
