> > Parked Pages on Expired domains: > > > > At day -10 of TUCOWS domain life cycle we turn on an "expired domain parked > > page" for all domains (Remember you can customize the "expired domain > > header" in the RWI with your customer message IE: This domain Has expired > > please click here to renew) > > > > Tucows then reviews the traffic, parked page revenue and secondary market > > value over the next few weeks then makes a decision to renew or drop the > > domain at day -39/-40. We move/renew the domain into an internal account > > (Tucows Cost) and continue to share the revenue with the reseller. If the > > original end user comes back to renew the domain within the regular grace > > redemption period we move the name back as per the rescue process at a cost > > of $80.00. Tucows continues to manage the domains in an internal account > > at no renewal costs to the original reseller. Parked Page revenue also > > continues to be shared 50/50 as long as we own the domain. > > This is what people want to opt-out from (which should be clear as it is > the only thing about parked pages that is not opt-in). Opting out was > promised here on this list when parked domains were discussed before > their introduction. Please explain us what steps we have to take for > opting out from _parked pages on expired domains_. >
No such thing as opt-out wrt expired domains. Tucows holds these domains (for the above-mentioned $80.00) until the original registrant wants it back or they can no longer derive revenue from it. This is, according to the person I spoke to at Tucows, "to prevent the name from being scooped up by a domain speculator who will offer to sell it back to you for more." I guess it's okay to be a domain speculator selling you back your name, as long as it doesn't cost the reseller more than $80.00. I don't know what the legal or ethical ramifications are of us increasing that $80.00 (to the end customer) so as to make a profit (or at least not lose any money). I guess I need to thank Tucows for being our knight in shining armour and taking ownership of my customer's domain (without my or my customer's knowledge or consent*) and holding it for "only $80.00" instead of letting it drop so that it could be registered by anybody (including me or my client) for $10.00. *Yes, I know.... If the customer had paid the renewal, we wouldn't be having this conversation. But I actually had been dealing with Tucows all these years because I thought that they were more ethical than all those "other guys". Now, of course, I know that that isn't the case. Brian O'Donnell Doctor PC www.doctorpc.ca _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
