Friday, Friday, December 21, 2001, 11:17:47 AM, David Kaufman wrote: >> ... 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 This is the kind of thing that makes Enom start looking like a viable alternative. I've been toying with offering users a choice of registration services through the registrar system of their choice, but something like this really makes it something I'm more seriously considering. I don't like the fact that Tucows is going to offer my domains for resale directly to others if I let them drop. I don't think my customers will like knowing that either. It's different if it goes through the drop cycle, the people have to take a gamble on it then, and they don't get the kind of "inside data" that Tucows is now collecting on all our names that expire. Like I said, the existence of this kind of service is one of those deal breaker issues. It also seems to be to be a breach of the trust between the registrant and the registrar, and I believe that ICANN would find it violates the Registrar agreements. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Webcertificates.info SSL Certificates for resellers from $49ea
