RE: [registrars] WHOIS expiration date for Auto-renewed domains

["Bhavin Turakhia" <bhavin.t@directi.com>]

Hi,

We all had a discussion with chuck from verisign in the shanghai meeting
about changes in the auto-renewal process itself. I believe there was
some talk from Verisign's side about not charging the registrar until
the domain is explictly renewed, however maintaining the domain name in
an auto-renew grace period for 45 days unless an explicit delete command
is issued

That initself is a step that needs to be taken - apart from reducing the
confusion by simply putting a note in the whois output during the
auto-renew grace period, sorting out the confusion between the actual
expiration date and the auto-renew induced expiration date

bhavin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-registrars@dnso.org 
> [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Nezih Erkman
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 10:25 AM
> To: VeriSign Global Registry Services
> Cc: Registrars Constituency
> Subject: Re: [registrars] WHOIS expiration date for 
> Auto-renewed domains
> 
> 
> > One solution would be to try and explain to the Registrant 
> that what 
> > they are seeing on the whois may not necessarily be the real 
> > expiration date because of this thing called autorenewal.
> 
> This is what we are doing right now, but it's not easy to 
> convince someone who is trying to take advantage of  'the 
> computer glitch that renewed his domain without a payment'  - 
> yeah right ;-))
> 
> > I recall Verisign asking about the practicality of auto 
> renewal last 
> > fall but have not heard much on that lately.
> >
> 
> How did I forget this one!!!. Yes, this is the #1 solution:
> 
> Nezih Jack Erkman
> R & K GBS, Inc.
> 000Domains.com
> 501-779-1934
> 
> 
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