It's not in the agreement.
It's also not in the agreement.
The agreement doesn't say you can do it. The agreement doesn't say you
can't do it. The CIRA board (previous) was asked to clarify it and that is
when the ruling came in. You can see this in the January 2001 board
minutes (I think!) -- Business Models.
Cheers,
Paul
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Ken Joy wrote:
> I'm pretty sure CIRA has a clause forbidding this; I just browsed the
> registrar agreement and couldn't find it (and i'm out of time to look right
> now)...but that's availalbe on the CIRA website for any who are interested.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William X Walsh
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:52 AM
> > To: Heather Peel
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Registrar "holding" payments - thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Wednesday, Wednesday, November 14, 2001, 4:16:35 AM, Heather Peel wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> >
> > > I just spoke to a new hosting client about his domain registrar and
> > > I'm not sure if what they are doing is even legal or contravenes
> > > CIRA's rules.
> >
> > > The registrar apparantly accepts payment for multiple domain years,
> > > and yet, does not actually pay CIRA for them. My client paid them
> > > for 5 years and I noticed that his expiry date showed Dec. 2001. I
> > > asked him about this and when he contacted the registrar, he was
> > > told that they had a problem with people registering for multiple
> > > years and then transferring their domain elsewhere...therefore they
> > > only register one year at a time and the money is held in trust in
> > > the meantime. My first thought was what if they went out of
> > > business?
> >
> > Network Solutions has been known to the do the same thing in the past,
> > but I haven't heard of any cases of them doing this recently.
> >
> > > I know I would not be comfortable dealing with a registrar who did
> > > this, but it may be common practice for all I know.
> >
> > Me either. I agree, it's sleazy as hell.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > --
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