Re: Long term registrations - Was: RE: [ga] Fwd: LACTLD comments on Zone Transfers

[Patricio Poblete <ppoblete@nic.cl>]

On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:28:29AM +1200, Steven Heath wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Steven Heath wrote:
[...]
> 
> My opinion is any fee that is based on the registrant, or their agent, being
> charged to update details would result in lower quality of data compared to
> the a fee based on unlimited changes being allowed. Lower quality is not a
> good thing.

When we at NIC Chile started charging for domain name registrations back in 1997,
we had an initial "registration" fee, plus a yearly "update" fee that you would
only have to pay if you requested a modification during that year (and it
was collected at the time of the first update in a year). The registration fee
provided for "free" updates during the first year.

Users perceived this as complicated system, comparing it to what happened in
.com, where with a periodic renewal payment they could submit modifications
without having to think that they would cost them money. We did observe the
effect Steven predicts: customers avoiding some non-essential updates (and a few
essential ones!), with data becoming stale in our database.

Also, we didn't have back then an instant payment system, and we issued bills
that were due in 30 days. When bills went unpaid, what were we supposed to do...
reverse the update?

Well, finally we decided to abandon that system and switch to the usual renewal
fees.

Patricio Poblete
NIC Chile
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