to clarify, i never meant to imply that it would be legal for network solutions to do
this, only that it would be in their best interest to have such a "policy", legal or
not
with regard to the legality, it is also clearly illegal for them to request payment
for a domain which has already been transferred .. something which network solutions
was guilty of for some time .. they can say that it was a mistake .. ya, right,
whatever
all i am saying is that i would not be surprised to see network solutions attempt to
pull a "microsoft" tactic in order to preserve their market dominance
-s.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn W. Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 25. January 2001 16:01
> To: OpenSRS Developers List
> Subject: RE: Registry transfers lose remaining time now?
>
>
> 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.
> >
>
