Yes, I know all about DROA and the notices they send out very early. We do keep all of our client domains locked, and have warned clients in the past.
This is an account we just acquired from a designer who went on to other pursuits, so I don't know the history except that the domain was never registered with us. It is currently with DROA, and it is DROA/Namejuice showing their own expiry date which is earlier than the Internic WHOIS. I know that DROA sometimes has a wrong date in the mailed notices because they may have made their mailing list before the actual registration provider made a renewal. In that case they are wrongly reporting someone else's expiry date. But in the case I am asking about here, they are reporting a wrong date for a domain in _their own system_. I worry that it could get deleted prematurely because of this inconsistency. Could that happen? Jo -----Original Message----- Hey Jo, DRoA has for a long time sent renewal notices by snail mail to customers of other registration providers. My understanding is that these notices are sent based on information in the public whois records, which of course is in violation of the terms of use of the Whois database. When this started, we had a number of customers be send payment thinking this notice was coming from us. It's important to make sure your customers keep their domains locked, and you should take also use the Whois privacy service to keep their postal and email addresses shielded. I've seen expiry date discrepancies like this in notices that we received (for customers using our whois privacy service). This is I think due to whois data being old and out of date. It's unrelated to the root whois record showing an additional year of time. That happens when a domain is temporarily renewed during the grace period. If you'd like more info on this, feel free to contact me privately. Thanks, Doug. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Register4Less.com Quoting Jo for Groups and Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Anyone seen this before? > > Internic WHOIS reports: > Expiration Date: 31-may-2010 > > DROA reports: > Expiration date: 2008-05-31 > > > I often see it the other way around with Internic showing the earlier > date - the registrar is renewing one year at a time even though you > paid for several ... but their own WHOIS normally reports all the > years you paid. Anyone have a clue as to what DROA is doing here? Do > you think the client in danger of having his domain drop? We'd like to > inform ourselves as much as possible before advising the client. _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
