Hi,
Just wanted to know what do you do with domain names of accounts that are
*dead*, customer won`t pay at all...
We have resorted to Afternic.COM and actually auction the domain names for
the amount of unpaid bills. Any other creative/less drastic measures ?
Comments welcome.
Fabian Rodriguez - Associate Director
Outsourcing and Business Development
Toxik Technologies Inc. - Montreal, QC, Canada
www.toxik.com - Phone: (514) 528-6945 � Fax: (514) 221-3329
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Vladimir Jebelev
> Sent: August 1, 2000 2:22 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: Implementing credit card processing...
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Bill Gerrard wrote:
>
> > > - acquire funds
> > > - if fails (which is very unlikely, since authorization
> was successful)
> > > then send a notification to customer support folks, so they can
> > > try to re-submit credit card later, and it fails again,
> > > ***unregister domains***
> >
> > Unfortunately TUCOWS.com/OpenSRS does not share the ability to
> "unregister
> > domains" with their RSP's but it sounds like they allow their internal
> > retail registration group do it (i.e. Domain Direct), is this correct?
> >
> >
>
> No, Domain Direct people use the same APIs. I didn't specifically mean
> 'use unregister capabilities of OpenSRS API', but rather, - make sure
> those domains can not be used by the guy whose credit card failed on
> capture funds, it may simply mean resetting contact and nameserver info to
> your RSP.
>
> In practice, you never have to resort to such measures: we are not talking
> about stolen credit cards numbers or exceeding credit limits - those cards
> will fail on authorization. The likelyhood of a successful authorization
> and then failure on capturing funds 1-2 seconds later is virtually zero:
> even if your network connectivity goes down during that window, you should
> be able to capture that transaction later.
>
> Vlad
>
