> For example, I don't know how what YOU have to pay for the domain works.
IF
> you have to pay for it on exactly the due date and you've paid the $6,
then
> it is reasonable to expect your $10 from the registrant before you let it
> go. If, as I suspect, you too are given some 'grace' time on your upstream
> payment - then even though a domain is past due no-one, in reality, owes
> anybody anything.
The registry auto-renews domains on the expiry date. This means that
OpenSRS pays the registry immediately . However, the registry has a 60(?)
day period in which OpenSRS can request a refund, thereby deleting the
domain, and making it available for anyone. Now, surely they could do this
deletion earlier, if requested -- But then the domain would be available to
the open market, not just the current owner.
However, I suspect that once the transfer has been processed, this refund
can no longer happen, and as a result, OpenSRS would be out the $6 fee, and
the client would have an extra year. As a result, transfers after
ground-zero can not be allowed.
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