Bob's Lists wrote:
> Is it perhaps the case that Netsol ARE paying for the 'next year' of the
> domain, pre-empting receipt of payment from the previous registrant? Even
> so, there would be no sense in them continuing to pay the registry for a
> domain from which they in turn were receiving no payments unless, indeed, it
> was their intention to hold it hostage (making the previous suggestion of
> hitting them on the basis of cybersquatting more interesting).
>
NetSol is actually not paying for the "next year" but rather blocking
customers
of its competitors (registrars like Tucows,etc) from registering those
expiried
names.
I did try to register one NSI expiried name with DotRegistrar but I got
the
error "domain not available", but when I phoned NSI and asked them
whether
I can register that domain, they said yes if I paid USD190 registrant
name
change, but USD70 for 2 years registration fee, which I did and now I
own
that domain.
> Furthermore even if this IS the case, it makes absolutely NO sense for them
> to not sell it to someone else after the previous registrant's lease
> expired. Are we to believe that they are keeping it 'because they paid for
> it'? If I was a shareholder I'd be pretty concerned about them wasting my
> money thus.
>
NetSol will NEVER release expiried domains to its competitor's customers
(which you are), but if you are their customer, yes, you can buy back
the
expiried domain.
> What's the OpenSRS policy on this, will the domains be registerable by
> someone else if the present registrant lets it expire?
>
No, OpenSRS keeps holding the domain just like Netsol does. In fact, I
let one
of my OpenSRS registered domains expiry because I did not want it, and
Tucows
is still holding it even after 270 days!
Now, how do I get Tucows release my name back into the registry so I can
register it with ENOM?
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