When designing this feature, we wanted to ensure that this feature would provide uninterupted service. Should the autorenewal fail due to lack of funds, this would allow ample time to be otherwise warned.
Naturally, you can use your own auto-renewal reminder system (a calender works for some people) and set it in advance as long or as short as possible. :) sA Scott Allan Director, OpenSRS [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, abel wrote: > I noticed that when a domain is set to auto-renewal, it renews one month > ahead of expiry, in other words, payment is done 11 months after the > registration and one month before the actual expiry. > Is there, besides the financial, any reason to do this? > It seems to me that the system is just as capable to withdraw the funds on > the expiry date as it is one month ahead, I agree that for one domain this > makes little difference, but going into large numbers we are talking a > considerable amount of intrest, it becomes a bit like the banks sitting on > the money for one day extra, thus making a few dollars extra. > > In the end it is the priniciple of the matter. > > Abel Wisman > > Url dot Org >
