Unfortunately, I tend to agree with this. It just means more hammering of
systems in general...
Regards,
sA
At 03:46 PM 9/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Domain speculators will do whatever is necessary to try to catch the expired
>domains. A random interval means they will be continually bombarding all
>systems involved using automated scripts. This means we all deal with the
>degradation in service all the time. A known availability time for expired
>names would at least confine this activity to a short period of time.
>
>You can't hope to prevent the registration of desirable names that become
>available. So why not be up front about the whole matter?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Terry Knab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 1:34 PM
>Subject: Re: OpenSRS Renewal Spec - *DRAFT*
>
>
> >However, I have a problem with the specific date thing. Now, if NSI won't
> >tell us when a domain is due for release, I *sure* don't want expired
> >OpenSRS domains to have people preying on them to grab the minute they're
> >available. I'd love to see it made harder on domain specuators to get
> >recently released ones. (also, I can almost see a few of the RSPs buying
> >back the domains for resale)
> >
> >I'd like to see the auto-delete set at a date between 30 and 60 days
> >randomly selected by OpenSRS.
> >
>
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
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