Chuck, I agree with your last statement regarding fiddling with people's money. I spoke up on this topic last November and several people agreed it was a bad business practice on Internic.ca's part. However, it seemed to be a 'buyer beware' problem and apparantly it is buried somewhere in the agreement between the client and Internic.ca
It might be frowned on by ICANN, but apparantly has approval with CIRA. Please look at the Opensrs archives at: http://www.opensrs.org/archives/discuss-list/0111/0692.html This post was from Paul Anderson (who sits on CIRA's board of directors). On my end, I am very aware of the problem as it's affected several of my clients already. One of the problems I'm finding is that I don't have any easy way of seeing when a domain is up for renewal. The WHOIS says it is expiring, but in fact, the client may have paid for several more years. Often the client themselves don't know when the 'real' expiry date is supposed to be. Heather Peel The Net Now [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Daminato Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:50 PM To: dnsadmin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Keep renewal money but do not add it to the domain This practice is actively frowned upon by ICANN. There were some registrars that were doing this; when the domain was transfered the customer all of a sudden lost the years (they also were misreporting the whois expire date) This is close to that; but I don't know what internic.ca does if the domain transfers away - do they attempt a refund? Are they tracking? Do they maintain accurate enough contact information to get the monies back to the registrant? This, in my mind, is fraud; the money you save by not paying the registry fee is insignificant compared to what lawsuits may come your way for fiddling with other people's money. Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
