The more appropriate question is not if they knew, but would they still buy from that registrar IF they knew that this was the process that would followed.
I know for a fact I wouldn't. I if I wouldn't, how can I recommend that my customers do that? Friday, Friday, December 21, 2001, 3:19:06 PM, Dennis Hisey wrote: >> >> 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'd really like to know the percentage of customers who: > 1) Know what happens to a domain name when it expires. > 2) Care what happens to a domain when it expires. > 3) Bought the domain name from somebody based on what was going to happen to > it after they no longer wanted it. > Thank-you.... -- Best regards, William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Webcertificates.info SSL Certificates for resellers from $49ea
