Charles,
Are you sure you are charged a fee for deletions, or could it be that you
just don't get a refund after 5 days? (I have no first-hand knowledge, I'm
just asking.) Several other registrars do allow instant deletions at no
charge (some even refund the registration fee for deletions in the first day
or so).
Bulkregister as one example allows the member/reseller to delete a domain
name, free, without asking the admin contact, and has managed to keep their
accreditation. (I'm not saying their way of doing things overall is better
than OpenSRS, far from it.)
I have a number of domain names I would like to delete, but it isn't worth
bothering support about, so I'll just set them to expire without notice
(sort of a slow deletion).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Florian Effenberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: (IMHO) important feature: domain deletion
> The only difficulty with doing deletions is we are CHARGED a transaction
> fee if the deletion occurs after 5 days. Also, we'll have to build a
> system whereby we verify for SURE that the customer no longer wants the
> domain, or there's proof of non-payment (etc). It's a tricky business
> giving resellers the ability to delete domains - there's no undo button.
> If you delete a domain AND you're not supposed to, OpenSRS is ultimately
> responsible (and ICANN mandates are HARSH at times).
>
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Florian Effenberger wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to suggest an (IMHO) important feature: the domain
> > deletion.
> >
> > If your customer simply does not want a domain anymore, or you are
> > forced by a "nice" lawyer to give up some of your domain names, it
> > would be nice to have a "Delete this domain name" option in the
> > manage.opensrs.net interface.
> >
> > Currently we are waiting for two domains to be deleted by the support
> > ;-)
> >
> > The point is: with "deletion", I do NOT mean deletion of "by fault"
> > registered domain names. I do NOT mean deleting and then getting a
> > refund or something - no! Just a deletion out of the registry and the
> > reseller/manage menu :-) Before we went to OpenSRS, we did this a
> > couple of times with different registrars, was no problem at all.
> >
> > This is the only lack OpenSRS has. Apart from that, you guys do a
> > great job!
> >
> > Interested to hear your comments and thoughts on that,
> > Florian
> >
> >
