Whether or not it is desirable for a customer to have all of the domains they manage expire on the same date for internal tracking purposes is a matter of debate, and people on this list have articulated various views on this topic.
No matter where this goes we must keep a few things in mind, At the moment Verisign (the registry) accepts registrations and renewals for 1 year increments. Therefore this would require a change at the registry level. In the past when there were problems with transfers and domains had a year taken away due to 'interesting policies' Verisign was able to add months to registrations to give domain owners time to renew their domains, so they do have the technology to add less than 12 months to a domain name. Now a customer has for example 150 domain names expiring on 150 different days. Which expiration date do we standardize to? Or do we give a choice of 4 days eg Jan 15, April 15, July 15, October 15 - to coincide with fiscal quarters? How do we bill for this? do we take the new expiration date, subtract the current expiration date, divide that by number of days in the year and multiply by the annual renewal fee? Does OpenSRS do the same for our billing? Do we have a minimum renewal fee (moving expiration date from October 13 to October 15?) results in a minimum renewal fee of $1.00? I like being responsive to customers, In addition if i were able to invoice my customers only once a year it would reduce my internal overhead and make my accounting easier. I believe it is reasonable to try to provide uniform expiration / renewal dates to our customers who want this feature. I think the dialogue here should now progress to what terms this new feature should offer. This way OpenSRS can be responsive to our needs and desires when lobbying the registry for changes. Just my two cents Michael At 07:52 PM 8/18/2002 -0400, Ross Wm. Rader wrote: > > We will leave this in our partners hands, OpenSRS. We buy our registration > > services from them and they are over all a great company and I have no > > doubts that they will have a meeting and discuss it and come up with the > > best details for this to run smoothly (IE: Details) and make it happen if >it > > means making more people happy and making more money ;o) If they kill it > > without even considering it, what are they going to do when Verisign >decides > > to push it through and then start doing it and increase revenues. (If > > Verisign doesn't go bankrupt from loosing all their customers ;o) > > > > Right, Ross? I trust you Bro. > >That pretty much sums it up - except for the meeting part - we should be >able to pull it off without one of those distasteful things ;) > >-rwr
