That would be acceptable. Although a little more technical, I think (actually know) our customers would more than approve this type of offer)
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try Dearer.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Brody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mike Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Johannes Erdfelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:07 PM Subject: Re: Moving renewal dates... > > At the moment Verisign (the registry) accepts registrations and > > renewals for 1 year increments. Therefore this would require a change > > at the registry level. > > Correct. > > > 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. > > Also correct. > > > Now a customer has for example 150 domain names expiring on 150 > > different days. > > Which expiration date do we standardize to? > > Let the customer decide what day is most convenient to them. The math is > still the same for the registry regardless. > > > Or do we give a choice of 4 days eg Jan 15, April 15, July 15, October > > 15 - to coincide with fiscal quarters? > > Just as a point of note, I've NEVER worked for a company whose fiscal > quarter ended in the middle of month. > 1/1-3/31,4/1-6/30,7/1-9/30,10/1-12/31 seems to be the schedule I've > usually seen, with some occasional variation on which one is actually > "first" in the fiscal year (e.g., my present employer runs 7/1-6/30). > > > How do we bill for this? > > We = RSP's? However you like. > > > 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 think the logic of: > N = number of days to move an expiration forward (only forward!) > A = annual cost (presently $10.00) > C = (N/365)*A = Cost to change expiration date, > > although I could also accept > > F = Handling Fee > C = ( (N/365)*A) + F ) > > D > >
