At 11:51 PM 3/17/2002 -0600, POWERHOUSE wrote: >I would have to agree. I would HATE it if when I finally got to sleep at >5am, I got a call from somone about one of my domains being Hyjacked, or >something like that, because they where open 24hours a day. I would be VERY >mad.
But the user whose business depends on 24/7 access expect exactly that. >Besides that, the FCC in the USA does have laws about contact >times, you may not contact people before 9am and after 9pm or something like >that, for business. You must call during "Normal Hours" because of people's >sleep and stuff. Mostly it applies to companies that are collecting money >owed them, but it does also apply to the rest of the world's calls >too(business). Since you'd be contacting another business, this would be irrelevant. Looking at the specific case in question, everything it would take to make the determination -- web server logs, reverse DNS lookup -- could have been done at 3am on a Sunday without waking anyone at all outside of OpenSRS. >Plus, I would hate having to pay more for the domains just to have someone >their for something that is rare. Geeze, I pay the $10.00 per domain and >above, because I've already done all the work, that other SRS group is only >charging 8.00 per domain, and above. I could possibly compete with GoDaddy >on the >com's, net's and org's if I went that way, but I've been with OSRS for a >while and done a lot of work to get it going. If they have to up the price, >Then I'll >probably switch. But not if I don't have to. Well, some of us aren't here because of the price, and we expect erring on the side of service as a policy.
