More bad news:
I just ran a script against my RWI to check for registrar-transferred domain
names, and there are currently 33! I'm guessing I'm probably not the only
one...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Joy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Chuck Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:20 PM
Subject: RE: Renewal notices still being sent for registrar-transferred
domain names!
> I'm checking this out. The answer, of course, is 'yes, when domains
transfer
> away, we mark them gone'. However, of course, this domain is still in our
> system. I'm hoping it has to do with simply missing a day between our BIG
> cleanup, and the daily cleanups we've been doing ever since.
>
> I'll keep you posted.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Hatcher
> > Sent: May 15, 2001 12:52 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Renewal notices still being sent for registrar-transferred
> > domain names!
> >
> >
> > I thought this was a problem of the past, but...
> >
> > Today a client, having just received an automated renewal notice,
> > renewed a
> > domain name with me. It was processed by the OpenSRS system and
> > pended, and
> > only when I tried to submit the pending order did I get an error "Order
> > 3006898 (unversed.com) not registered: Registry didn't return a valid
> > expiration date."
> >
> > Now, the owner of this domain name received a renewal notice "from me",
> > courtesy of the automated OpenSRS renewal system. They submitted an
order
> > to renew at OpenSRS through my client scripts, and received no
> > error. They
> > submitted a payment to me. And now I have to refund their payment and
> > explain to them that I was mistaken. True, they share a little
> > of the blame
> > for not remembering they transferred the domain name to Go Daddy
> > Software a
> > month ago, but I do not like being in this position.
> >
> > What's the story? Are transferred domain names not being removed from
the
> > OpenSRS database? Are renewal notices still being sent without
> > checking the
> > current registrar?
> >
> > I stopped running registrar checks against my RWI list when it was last
> > announced the problem was fixed. I will start running them again
> > immediately.
> >
> >
> >
> >
