Loren,
Let me correct you. The Registrar has to run the whois server which can be queried for all of the info including the expiration date. But the definitive database is with the REGISTRY. Should the registrar go under the information is still in the database of our reliable friends at NetSol (cough cough). It may be possible for registrars that get multi year registrations to automatically renew domains each year until their pre paid time has run out, (which would allow them to play with the money and earn interest from it ... hmmmm an interesting profit center) To my knowledge no registrar is currently doing that. So it is probable that years would not be lost.. Michael On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Loren Stocker wrote: > Allow me to jump in here too! > > I've become aware that the "whois" info is entirely with the Registrar > including -- I assume -- the expiration date (yes, I know that the Registry > has some info, like nameserver!). > > My concern is what happens to a 10-year pay ahead? It that payment received > and assured by the Registry? Or is the user dependent upon the now defuncted > Registrar to pay each year for the remains nine years, i.e., all is lost? > > Best, Loren > > > > myOstrich Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a discussion forum I frequent, the talk has turned to what happens > when a reseller or a registrar goes bankrupt. > > In the case of an OpenSRS reseller, the domain stewardship goes where? I > assume that the domain owners can transfer without any issues since > OpenSRS is still the registrar and that's where the domains are > controlled anyway. The transfer process would work just like it does > now. > > In the case of an ICANN accredited registrar, what happens to domains > registered with them? If OpenSRS were to go under (not that there is any > risk of that), what would happen to the domains? Is this any different > than if any other registrar went under? > > -t > > >
