ezgoing wrote:
Many mail servers would flag you for spamming. Don't get me wrong, I agree completely with the reasoning and the logic, but my website contains a hidden email address and any email that appears at this address results in the sender's host being blocked.We search each domain before it expires trying to find an email address that the site says use for anything. We then send emails to all these addresses. Too many of these email addresses either fail or are apparently unanswered as the domain expires.
All that being said, if you humanly inspect the site, you should be fine.
Agreed. Personally, a domain is too low profit to be worthwhile wasting a stamp.The only other that can be done is snail mail weeks before the expiration or a telephone call to the admin contact. This has been discussed between staff but at this point we still are not doing it. Perhaps we all should but many feel that if they refuse to respond to numerous emails they are not interested in renewing the domain name.
In all fairness, if you only receive one message every couple weeks from your business domain, how many people would miss it if it disappeared?However you would think that if it is a valid domain name in which they have an interest in renewing they would renew it immediately when their web site goes off line. But many don't, which makes you wonder why they get so upset three-six months later when they discover they have lost the domain.
Worse, when the site is hosted at the ISP which provides connectivity if that ISP loads hosting clients DNS zones into the client facing DNS servers. This is arguably a dumb thing to do, but on the other hand, a large local ISP will host a lot of local sites, and a lot of local users will visit local sites, so it's not really much of a problem 99% of the time. It actually helps, except in the case of a domain expiring, or moving away.
In the case of a hosting client, yeah. On the other hand, if the expense isn't a regularly occuring monthly charge, then I could see some customers getting upset over the "unauthorized charge"For our hosting clients we automatically renew the domain at expiration and charge their hosting account the fee. We then send them an email notifying them that we renewed their domain name for them and charged them. Many seem to believe this is one of the functions that we should be performing for them, automatic renewal without their becoming involved.
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