On Sun, Aug 18, 2002, Derek J. Balling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 12:53 AM, Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2002, Roger B.A. Klorese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Dave Warren wrote: > >> > >>> Why not simply process all the renewals at once, thereby extending the > >>> renewal date -- Even though the domain doesn't expire for 6 months, > >>> why not > >>> just renew it? > >> > >> That doesn't help. Many companies just want the contracts to be > >> coterminous, just as they do with maintenance contracts. > > > > That's great and all, but this isn't the best place for that request. > > Perhaps I missed it as I was watching this thread, but did someone from > OpenSRS say "this is something we are not capable of doing"? I know I > have customers who would probably pay me (and by extension, Tucows) for > a full-year registration that only lasted X months, if it enabled me to > bring all their domains up for renewal on the same day each year. > > So, if it's something Tucows CAN do, then it most certainly is germane > for discussion here, and I've seen nothing yet indicating they CAN'T do > it (I'll admit I'm not sure if they can, but they might be able to, who > knows).
I haven't seen anything from Tucows say this, but since I have some intimate knowledge into the inner workings of registries, I know that this is something Tucows can't do. They only thing they can do is the same thing you can do, talk to ICANN/Verisign. FWIW, I don't think the renewal semantics will change. JE
