I've been offline for a few days, so sorry if this thread is old. But whenever I hear people crying the blues about CIRA and saying they can't do anything right I always have to pipe up and say one thing which usually hits home:
Registrar transfers from beginning to end in under 10 minutes. Tell me that doesn't rock and that Verisign can even come close. -mark On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, James Simmons wrote: > > Yes, I to find dealing with CIRA for just about anything many orders of > magnitude more difficult than Verisign-NSI. Perhaps if the members of the > CIRA board had to change an organization name on a domain, transfer it, > register a new domain for a municipality, etc., etc., things might change. > > If I had a choice, I would simply not offer .ca domains at all. And this > wholeTBR registration period is repleat with holes, oversights and issues. I > feel yourpaid man. However, dealing with OpenSRS is an absolute pleasure, so I can > put up with all the incompetence, for now... > > James > > > Tried putting through a transfer today for a .ca, and after getting > > funky errors from RCL and RWI, called support and learned that it's a > > CIRA error, and that since the existing name doesn't have a phone > > number listed (don't ask me why they let it in the first place), CIRA > > won't allow a transfer to go through (due to lack of information, > > yada)... > > > > IMO, the logic of this organization is summed up by a response from a > > hosting affiliate of mine (today): > > --- > > Two words... CIRA sucks. > > > > This client is having problems at z** that is why they want to > > transfer. > > > > Good luck keeping this client. CIRA really sucks. I really do hate them > > and there policies are WAYYYYY TOOO strick compared to other > > registrars. > > > > I will relay the message and they will probably renew where they are > > with all the hassles. We shall see. > > --- > > > > Anyone else thinking of dropping support for .ca, or 3x their pricing? > > EVERY name that has gone through, and EVERY transfer in the past month > > has required at least 1-2 hours or diggling around to get done... Sad, > > sad state of affairs... > > > > <* vent off > > > -- mark jeftovic http://www.easydns.com http://mark.jeftovic.net
