Frankly, if there is any evidence that the domain was renewed, and no adequate statement to the contrary was given there are really only 2 recourses:
1. Give the back the domain, and compensate for any degradation of its value, and loss of income. A ???? farm, objectionable data, or really bad site/business/reputation/spamming/etc... Can make a domain worth millions very expensive for the new owner. 2. Give them a similar domain, and pay for the advertising, and lost business, and lack of value/customer loyalty.(You can never fully recover referrals in progress, affiliate links, offline advertising, third party advertising, etc...) To be quite frank, I think VERISIGN should pay for this, because: 1. THEY control it. 2. THEY instigated rules encouraging the early deletion of domains by registrars. (Tucows said this happened because they deleted 5 days early to allow for a connection problem covering 5 days. They said this was an issue as they would have to pay for the renewal.) I hate to say it, but such practices are common, reasonable, and understandable. 3. THEY didn't honor the maximum grace offered. It would have not hurt them AT ALL to hold it for those 5 days. In effect, they are giving the owners of a domain FEWER rights concerning that domain than registrars. ALSO, they probably honor the full 5 days in THEIR case, as they have no payments or connection problems to contend with. That isn't fair to the other registrars. Steve >-- Original Message -- >Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 13:20:01 -0500 >To: "Michael J. Masin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Phillip Beazley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Disappearing Renewals >Cc: Ashish Pawaskar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >At 12:30 PM 1/18/2003, Michael J. Masin wrote: > >>Isn't it possible that the OpenSRS interface worked correctly but the >>registry goofed and deleted a renewed domain? > >If that occurred, though, there would be an OpenSRS transaction ID >associated with the renewal. I WISH it were that simple. > >>>I think the issue at stake here is that: >>> >>>Phillip renewed a domain, the RWI told him the domain was RENEWED when >>>in fact it was not! > >That's the issue exactly... > >>>Is it just me or does anyone else think that somehow the OpenSRS RWI >>>goofed up and is responsible for whatever Phillip is facing from his >>>client? > >I do, but then I'm biased. :) > > >-- >Phillip Beazley >Onvix -- Website Hosting, Development & E-commerce >Visit http://www.onvix.com/ or call 727-578-9600. >
