Hello Mike, Maybe you just have to jump into EPP draft discussion and try to explain to Scott Hollenbeck why do you need this. Your proposal could became an official standard.
But for me personally, i don't think that you and your customer with 400 domains is a good reason to change registry's logic which will affect more than 30 millions domains. If it work - don't fix it. That's a good paradigm. Regards, Sergei MA> That would be acceptable. Although a little more technical, I think MA> (actually know) our customers would more than approve this type of offer) MA> -- MA> Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net MA> [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA> http://www.4CheapDomains.Net MA> Need Advertising? Try Dearer.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com MA> ----- Original Message ----- MA> From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MA> To: "Michael Brody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MA> Cc: "Ross Wm. Rader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mike Allen" MA> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Johannes Erdfelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; MA> "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MA> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:07 PM MA> 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 >> >>
