ROTFLMAO. :-D
That's fabulous. Bounty on the Mutiny.
Poetic justice aside, I think it's worth noting that very small percentage
of auctioned domains actually get sold, and most of those are for
couple of hundred bucks or less.
Business.com and engineering.org are few and far between. But hey, maybe
this way you could recoup some lost revenue AND create a disincentive to
people intending to abuse your service.
Cheers,
William Porquet, MA TUCOWS.com/OpenSRS Tech Ops
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opensrs.org/
The future masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent.
The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. - Marshall McLuhan, 1969
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Toxik - Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> 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
> >
>
>
