Hello,
As I understand it, the current policy, though under review,
is to deny transfers from OpenSRS if the domain is expired.
Or has this changed? I've got two customers trying to
transfer domains to another registrar. One says the
transfer was placed the day before the domain expired, the
other, the day after. Both say that now the domains are
locked, preventing the transfer.
>From what I understand, they only have two options. Renew
through OpenSRS or wait 40 days, let it expire, and pray
they're able to re-register it before someone else. Is this
true? Can nothing else be done?
I know that the policy is under review, so let me take this
opportunity to express my feeling that this policy should be
changed, and soon. Plenty of people have complained on this
list about NSI's change of policy regarding expired
transfers. Now I find myself, in my customers eyes, as the
bad guy, holding they're domain hostage, preventing a
transfer to another registrar that sells domains for half
the price that I do. Sound familiar?
What exactly is the logic behind this policy? If the
domain's past due, then money is owed for the period after
the expiration, even though technically the service stop
working when it expired? So therefore they must renew for 1
year, just so they can transfer. This reminds me of the
class action lawsuits against Blockbuster Video, which I
read they're going to settle for $550 Million in coupons.
The logic was that if you're five minutes late returning a
video, you shouldn't have to pay another 3 days worth of
rental. If you return a rental car two hours late, they
pro-rate the charges or charge an hourly fee, they don't
force you to rent the car for another week.
ST
