Actually Chuck, I think you're right - no refund from the registry after 5
days....
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager (ccTLDs)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Chuck Hatcher wrote:
> 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
> > >
> > >
>
>
