Friday, Friday, December 21, 2001, 11:06:59 AM, Kris Benson wrote: > Mike, I think you crossed a line here. There is currently a lot of > mud-slinging going on with this topic, probably without foundation.
No, there is foundation. Tucows may not want to publicly confirm it, but they are engaging in this practice right now, as we speak. And they did it without informing us in advance. I consider that to be a breach of trust already, one that I am NOT happy about. > To OpenSRS's credit, this is the first time I have seen even a *hint* of > impropriety. I agree. So much so that when I was first told of this, weeks ago before it ever came up here, I immediately told the person who told me (who is normally a very good source of info on stuff like this) that he had to have had his details wrong, and there was no chance it was as he was presenting it. My defense of OpenSRS was immediate and without hesitation that they were above this kind of impropriety, based on the history and the mutual trust they have built with this channel. That won't happen again, even if this project is killed. They have shown they are willing to engage in such improprieties, even if just until the channel protests too loud. I do see this as practice as wrong. The customer registers the name with the understanding of how the process works, and domains are to be deleted normally. They are not to be put on the auction block after expiration during a grace period that exists NOT TO BENEFIT the registrar in having time to sell the name to a third party, but to provide a period of time to collect the renewal fee from the REGISTRANT. If registrants were aware that their Registrar was going to engage in such practices with their domains once they let them expire, they would probably register with someone else. I know I would. I wouldn't engage in business with such a registrar, no matter what other benefits there were. I would either find a registrar who is willing to listen and do things the right way, or I'd form a group to create our own registrar. Developing an SRS like system really is not that hard. -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Webcertificates.info SSL Certificates for resellers from $49ea
