Russ Goodwin wrote: > At 06:45 PM 12/11/2006, jm wrote: >> $80 may or may not be reasonable, imo. >> >> What does it cost Tucows to hold the domain that much longer? > > $80 is what they charge to get a name out of redemption, so its fair > to charge that to recover a domain after an equivalent amount of > time, even if it only cost Tucows the registry fee + icann tax. > > IMO everyone should stop complaining about this. Tucows has the most > fair and flexible system of any registrar. Enom/Bulkreg, Directi, > NetSol, GoDaddy, et al either take the names away themselves or send > them out for auction with little or no recourse for recovering the domains. > > If you or your customers don't like it, RENEW YOUR DOMAINS PRIOR TO > EXPIRATION. > > You really haven't lost ANYTHING with the current setup. You can > still get your domains back in the 11th hour, much to the chagrin of > those winning the auctions. > > Not to mention the fact that they share revenue with you at every turn. > > No, I don't work for Tucows, I just think they've made the park > pages/auction system pretty fair and deserve praise not complaints for it.
I don't mind the redemption fee. The only thing I do mind is not being allowed to opt-out from parked pages when this is what was promised beforehand. Parked pages are simply annoying. They make the signal/noise ratio of the web worse, they mislead unexperienced web users and they annoy customers. To top this, those ads often contain content which is objectable to some people and now they're even using pop under ads. Arthur -- "Ein Herz für Kinder" - Ihre Spende hilft! Aktion: www.deutschlandsegelt.de Unser Dankeschön: Ihr Name auf dem Segel der 1. deutschen America's Cup-Yacht! _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
