ftr, Avis charge a whole extra day if your car is late, at least down on
paper! But that's digressing.
> From: "ST" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:00:27 -0700
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: transferring expired domain from OpenSRS
>
> 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
>
>
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