>>No. The contract is not over, for a number of reasons. The terms of the registration agreement seem pretty clear to me: "You agree that the Registration Agreement will remain in full force during the length of the term of your Domain Name Registration. Should you choose to renew or otherwise lengthen the term of your Domain Name Registration, then the term of this Registration Agreement will be extended accordingly." Implicit in that statement is the idea that if you choose *not* to renew, the agreement is *not* extended beyond the term of registration. I'm selling 1 year registrations. I guess if you're selling 1 year plus 40 day registrations, your points may be valid.
>>The domain is still listed as being owned by ME, >>but is not under MY control ... Until the domain >>goes through the redemption period, I'm still >>the owner. No, you're the previous registrant of an expired domain with a limited-time option to renew. Until and unless you exercise that option, you have no rights to the domain or its records. Any rights you may have had expired along with the registration. If you want to recover your rights, renew the domain. >>Sure. And they'll especially like it when those name servers >>are cached for an extra 72 hours after they pay and after I >>reactivate the site. That's a BIG benefit to me and my >>customers. Simple solution: Renew the domain name before it expires. I don't really think it takes 72 hours in most cases, but we've been telling folks they need to allow up to 72 hours for reactivation to take place under the current system, anyway. >>Having an immediate answer isn't really all that helpful since >>they still need to contact their RSP to renew. Current situation: Customer goes to their web site and gets a DNS error. Customer freaks out and sends me a nasty e-mail telling me what an idiot I am for crashing his web site. Time passes. I receive the e-mail and get all bummed out because my customer is yelling at me. I do the necessary research and discover that the customer has allowed his domain registration to expire. I reply to the customer telling him he needs to renew the domain. Time passes. Customer reads my e-mail (assuming he didn't do what about half my customers do and log a support ticket using an e-mail address from the expired domain). Customer renews the domain. Hypothetical New Situation: Customer goes to the web site and sees a page explaining that the domain registration has expired. Customer renews the domain. The new situation seems better to me. Faster, easier, and I'm less likely to get yelled at. However, if it's just a generic 404 page, it's no better and possibly worse than the old situation. I agree that it would have been nice to have had more notice and a better explanation than we received. I'll withold further judgment until we do receive a detailed explanation. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
