Ross Rader wrote:
This has some merit in that transfers which would have exceeded the 10 year maximum get capped at 10 years, so they are billing for the transaction.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
On 19/01/2005 8:13 AM Dave Warren noted that;
| Unless I'm missing something, accepting payment and not providing | service is called fraud, isn't it? -- So they should be obligated to add | the years to the domain if they're accepting the cash.
It all depends on the definition of "service". The registries argue that
what they provide is the registration function (insert a record into a
database) and a management function (let me modify those records). The
actual content of those records is of little consequence for their
business model - we're the ones with the end-users, not them. Hence,
registrars are often left holding the economic bag - which has the
result of passing a lot of unecessary costs along to end-users.
However, if the contents of the records are lof little consequence, perhaps they should set my domains' end dates to 10 years from today? I'll gladly pay the $6 charge :)
In other words, the can of worms I'm seeing is that the billing is done per-year, not per-transaction in some aspects, but perhaps not all.
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