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

["Rob Hall" <rob@momentous.com>]

Bhavin,

I disagree. You absolutely CAN send an explicit renew in order to renew the
domain if you so choose.

What I suggested was that the Registry should change the expiry date they
publish on whois, only after the 45 day period had expired, or if an
explicit renew was performed.

I do not think that they will want to change the RRP, nor the auto-renew
process.

I would be happy with just changing the date that publishes in the whois,
and keeping all other processes the same.  The debate of whether domains
should be deleted on the 45 days etc. is a different matter, and should be
dealt with seperately.  Let's solve this issue first, and then you can
propose we visit the other one.

Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On
Behalf Of Bhavin Turakhia
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:56 AM
To: 'Rob Hall'; 'Paul Stahura'
Cc: registrars@dnso.org; info@verisign-grs.com; 'Chuck Gomes'
Subject: RE: [registrars] WHOIS expiration date for Auto-renewed domains


> I think the Registry needs to show the real expiry date, not
> the new one once they have auto-renewed.  I would couple this
> with a change in status as well.  Perhaps "Active - pending
> renewal" or "Active - Post Expiration".
>
> As a Registrar, I can always explicitly renew the domain, and
> the date will forward by a year.

The issue here is that you DO NOT send an explicit renew if you wish to
renew the name. that's where the problem stems from. Therefore the
registry never knows that you have renewed the name on our side

This would actually require a modification to RRP and their
implementation of AUTO-RENEW where an explicit renew command needs to be
sent, and if it is not sent then the domain would be deleted after 45
days. This is the opposite behaviour of the current "assumed renewed
after 45 days" behaviour