> Remember that the "expiry" date reported by a registrar via whois may not > necessarily reflect the actual values held in the registry, which we > honour.
There isn't any way to determine the date stored by the registry, is there? I'm worried that some enterprising (cash grabbing) registrar will start soft renewing in their own database, and not push the renewals out to the registry at all, just let the automatic registry renewal handle it. This allows them to screw customers, save money (By investing the money, rather then giving it to Verisign), and with a bit of smallprint they could probably get away with it (Small print to the effect that upon transferring away, you forfit any/all remaining years on your domain, blahblahblah) This potentially means that under some circumstances, when tranferring registrars, time paid to a previous registry will not be honoured, and as a result, we should be more careful when informing our clients about this. -- The nice thing about standards, there is enough for everyone to have their own.
