Somehow the image of some bovine critter snapping a cloved hoof just makes me realize what talented animals we are! :)
David Kaufman wrote: > > 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
