Re: [ga] Registrar domain deletion policies

[Jefsey Morfin <jefsey@wanadoo.fr>]

 From personal experience already quoted in here this leads to a DN 
hijacking. Let say you pay $35 per annum a Registrar and then discover 
around renewal time that you could pay $ 9 under the same terms. You ask to 
transfer the DN. They say no, too late. Your normal move is to wait for the 
DN to expire and to reregister it cheaper. I have my former company name 
pending that way for 2 years and another DN for 3 years. They just holding 
them and waiting for me to pay again not releasing it. Now they would sell 
it to someone else without any chance that I can buy it back.

Mind you, they already have a service where they put on line to get any DN 
should it become available...
Jefsey







On 23:05 21/12/01, William X Walsh said:

>I'd like to get some feedback here.
>
>A registrar is currently testing a service where rather than outright
>deleting domain names that are expiring without payment, they are
>creating a premium service where, for a monthly fee, you can get
>access to have these names transferred to you, without any interaction
>or approval from the prior registrant, and in a way that totally
>bypasses the normal deletion/drop process.
>
>What would you feedback be on the creation of such a service.  It in
>effect creates a monopoly, where domains registered at a registrar
>must be reregistered with that registrar (though they can, after 60
>days, be transferred to another registrar).
>
>I'm very much opposed to this, on the grounds that I think the
>registrant has rights which are being trampled by this, including an
>assumption that their registrar will follow normally accepted
>processes and not actually solicit someone to purchase their domain
>name in such a direct fashion and outside the normal process.
>
>I'd like your feedback though, and I'll forward it on to them, but I
>also know they are on this list and reading it as well.
>
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>Best regards,
>William X Walsh <william@wxsoft.info>
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