Re: [nc-deletes] two additional issues

["Jordyn A. Buchanan" <jordyn@register.com>]

(1) I'm also comfortable making the policy retroactive after 180 days.
(2) I'd like to get a little registrar perspective here.  In some 
cases, I think they should have the option of continuing to provide the 
service for free to the registrant.  If that's never going to happen, 
and the only chance is that the registrar will move the domain to an 
"unpaid names department", then I think we could modify the requirement 
to delete domains to also include this case.

Jordyn

On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 11:16  AM, Bret Fausett wrote:

> (1) While looking for a citation for the number of expired but 
> non-deleted
> names, it occurred to me that our draft report does not explicitly 
> account
> for clearing out any backlog of such names. On a going forward basis, 
> we
> recommend that all expired domains be deleted within a time certain, 
> but
> what about names that expired in the past? Perhaps we should add a 
> provision
> that states that all such names should be deleted within 180 days of 
> the
> policy taking effect. (The longer window would avoid a situation in 
> which
> hundreds of thousands of names are deleted all at once.)
>
> (2) I'm also aware of another situation that we may not have 
> acccounted for.
> During its landrush, I believe that Afilias required initial .info
> registrations to last two years. Some registrars offered a one-year
> registration to users, however, and ate the second year. My 
> understanding is
> that the name should be deleted when the registrar's contract with the
> registrant expires, even if addditional years exist between the 
> registrar
> and the registry. Have we made that clear enough in the draft
> recommendation?
>
>     Bret
>