Re: [ga] The Price for Redemption

[Don Brown <donbrown_l@inetconcepts.net>]

The pricing is unconscionable.

2,000 x 85 = $170,000.  $170,000 / $100/hr = 1,700 hours or 42.5
man-weeks.  Do you believe it required that much in development cost?

$40 for a recovery vs. $6 for a new registration?  And, the Registrars
mark it up from there?

Looks like world class gouging, to me.

What about the poor Registrant who loses his domain name, through no
fault of his own -- perhaps the Registrar, Registry or someone else in
the chain is responsible.  Who pays, the consumer/Registrant?

I realize that Network Solutions needs cash flow and a reasonable
profit, but this is ridiculous.



Friday, February 7, 2003, 12:13:05 PM, DannyYounger@cs.com <DannyYounger@cs.com> wrote:
Dcc> as noted on the registrar's list:

Dcc> "Fees for the redemption grace period service will be charged upon successful
Dcc> restoration of domain name registrations. To provide for recovery of one-time
Dcc> development costs while allowing a reduced price in the longer term, the fee
Dcc> will initially be $85, but will later be reduced to $40. Specifically, through
Dcc> the end of the second calendar month after the calendar month in which the
Dcc> cumulative total of registered domain names restored pursuant to the 
Dcc> Redemption
Dcc> Grace Period policy reaches 2000, the price per successful restore command 
Dcc> will
Dcc> be $85; thereafter the fee will be $40.00."

Dcc> Registrars remain entitled to add their markup to this fee.  

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