From: "Donny Simonton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So your customer and my customers have had 40 days to renew the domain > and they have chosen not to renew the domain. So OpenSRS has come up > with a way that on day 40 to put the domain up for sale or whatever they > call it. I don't know the details, just what has been posted on the > mailing list. So instead of deleting the domain and allowing some other > registrar to register the domain, they try one last chance to have > somebody pay for a renewal before the domain must be deleted on day 45. > Since they would normally delete the domain on day 40, most people would > not even have an idea that this has happened. > > ... From a reseller's standpoint, this is a good thing ... > ... So stop your bitching and moaning! You will soon have an additional > revenue stream that you wouldn't have had before, because somebody would > have picked up the domain at namewinner.com or something similar.
if you think *that's* a good thing, how about this? the day your domain expires, Tucows changes the nameservers to point it at an expired-domain auction site for 40 days (or 10 or 45...). at the end of that time, whoever has placed the highest bid (maybe you!) gets the domain! or better yet, the auction site is only open to SnapCows Premium Partners and competing registrars, since they pay monthly fees just to be in the game! -dave
