I am open to the "Procedure" but I have customers more than interested. I believe if OpenSRS has the institutive to do this, I can help make it happen ;o)
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try Dear.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Brody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Johannes Erdfelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 8:03 PM Subject: Re: Moving renewal dates... > 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 > > >
