> >Is the "one year additional" when doing a registrar to registrar transfer
> >written in stone?
>
> Yes - it is a registry restriction.
Is the retriction "you _must_ add one year" or is it "you must add _exactly_
one year and you may not add more"? If it's the former, then it would seem
a restriction has been built into the OpenSRS transfer system that needn't
be there.
> >I've had a number of requests when accepting transfers to
> >be able to do two or more years. This would seem to be in the interest
of
> >both the RSP and OpenSRS to allow one to ten years when doing a transfer.
> >If a customer wants to do two or more years, by the time the transfer
takes
> >place, he's usually forgotten about it.
>
> It would particularly savvy of us to build a process that handles multi
> year requests upon transfer, and that renews the name for the appropriate
> term once it arrives here.
If some subsequent version of the client includes this ability, I hope it
could be made a 'native' process, rather than making it a transfer plus a
renewal for n-1 years. For single domain transfers, it wouldn't make much
difference. However, for a bulk transfer, I would worry about the speed of
this process. We've already had some problems with bulk transfers and
browsers timing out, even though we're limiting the number of domains to
just 100 per transfer.
Jim
