On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Robert L Mathews wrote: > I wanted to pass on something I was told by a VeriSign rep. I'm sure it > was complete BS, but I just wanted to get confirmation from OpenSRS so I > can argue with them a little better. > > Recently, I have noticed that the second confirmation from VeriSign is > taking four days to arrive, after the RWI shows the transfer as "Pending > Registry Approval". > > I called VeriSign to find out why. The rep confirmed that it could take a > few days for the confirmation message to arrive after a transfer is > started, but later said they send the message as soon as they receive the > request from OpenSRS. When I asked how those both statements could be > true, he suggested that OpenSRS probably "batches up" the transfer > requests and delays sending them for a number of days.
The problem we ran into recently is that NetSol has stopped sending confirmation messages for domains within 30 days of expiry. Seems that before you could call them and talk your way through this b.s. policy of theirs, but now you're hosed (you can't possibly confirm the transfer). -Tom
