At 09:42 AM 8/18/2002 -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: >Sorry guys - one of us probably should have jumped in - I was actually >caught in watching you all bat around your requirements (ie - what >should/should not this thing look like). > >I'm not sure we can or can't do it at this point, but I'm certainly paying >attention and plan on looking into it. > >Do me a favor though, if you have any more ideas, keep talking about them ;)
Appreciate the acknowledgement. :) I'm not sure why there are uproars to this, it's not like this would be forced on anyone. I think this would be a great service to offer clients with multiple domains. Some have only a few but are still interested in something like this. It would be optimal if they only paid what would be needed to sync them, but barring that, I think some are definitely interested enough that they wouldn't mind losing a few to several months to do this. Maybe instead of a "per domain" round-up, it could be "per batch"... For example, say the client owned three domains with the following renewal dates: example.com 9/2/02 example.net 2/14/03 example.org 7/31/03 If we were going to sync them to the furthest date out, 7/31/03, we'd need to add 10 months, 29 days to the first and 5 months, 17 days to the second. Together, that's 16 months, 16 days (using 30 days/month on average). The cost to the client would be 2 years. Okay, that wasn't a perfect example since they'd need two years either way. Okay, how about: example2.com 1/15/03 +7m 4d example2.net 6/21/03 +1m 28d example2.org 8/19/03 Same situation, syncing to furthest date out, 8/19/03. This time, the combined adjustment is less than one year. So instead of charging two years (one each) we round up from the combined adjustment to one year. Just food for thought. I'd definitely like to be able to offer this. I bet we'd even get transfers from other registrars based solely on this capability, if nothing else. If this is really a possibility, consider that we're discussing this in the open and OpenSRS competitors are now thinking about this as well. -- Phillip Beazley FutureSights -- Website Hosting, Development & E-commerce Visit http://www.futuresights.com/ or call 727-578-9600.
