This would be a violation of their agreement with ICANN.
Most likely, the information just got lost in their systems (and the NSI
person is as clueless as most).
-- Lynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Fraser
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 3:51 PM
To: A. M. Salim; OpenSRS Developers List
Subject: RE: Registry transfers lose remaining time now?
it does benefit network solutions because it makes people afraid to transfer
to another registrar
it makes sense to me that network solutions would initiate such a "policy"
just to take away that one selling point from competing, smaller, registrars
.. i am surprised that they did not do this before .. maybe their marketing
staff was at the
microsoft "competition management" seminar that week
-s.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. M. Salim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 25. January 2001 16:19
> To: OpenSRS Developers List
> Subject: Registry transfers lose remaining time now?
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Has the registry xfer policy changed regarding transfer of
> remaining time
> from NetSol to OpenSRS ?
>
> Up until now, any domain xfers I did from NetSol carried over
> the balance
> of time left with NetSol, and Tucows added one year to it.
>
> Apparently this has now changed.
>
> A client renewed a domain with NetSol (paid them $35 for 1
> year), then did
> a registry xfer from NetSol to OpenSRS (adding another year,
> toal 2 years
> according to my simple math). The xfer went through OK but OpenSRS is
> showing the domain expires next year, not 2 years from now.
>
> How so?
>
> I called up NetSol and the person I spoke with adamantly insisted that
> this is correct: any domain xfer away from NetSol loses any
> time left on
> the domain. Apparently this is spelt out in their policy
> though I could
> not see where (nor could the NetSol person but she still adamantly
> insisted that that's the policy). I asked if this is new and
> did not get a
> straight answer.
>
> So Tucows folks, please help me out here, what is the real answer?
>
> Should we stop telling our clients that we will transfer the
> balance of
> the time remaining on their account ? When did this change
> anyway, and
> how come it changed so quietly? That was a big selling point
> for us. If
> this is true, did this happen on NetSol's request or Tucows
> request? I
> can't imagine NetSol benefits from this much, so if this is
> true, perhaps
> this was initiated by Tucows? And knowing Tucows, this would
> be way out
> of character for Tucows (but not NetSol) so I am really puzzled by all
> this ... H-E-L-P !!!
>
> best regards
> Mike Salim.
>
