It should be obvious to all that Verisign set this up to make money, so it does not matter how complicated or simple the process is on their part. They will charge whatever they wish to charge for the service and required whatever documents they wish from the Registrars to justify the fees.
Registrars must submit the documents required by Verisign. Document preparation takes time so the Registrars should be able to charge a fee to recover this time plus their normal mark ups. Frankly I intend to add a $25 charge to cover my time. More if it requires much effort on our part to provide the paperwork for the client. I suspect that is why OpenSRS requires you to contact your account manager to determine the fee charged, to allow you to mark up the fee to recover your time and effort without your client knowing how much you are charging them for the service. I hope that they continue to require this and that their fee does not become public knowledge. I consider these fees to recover an expired domain name to be a bargain, based on what it would cost to recover the domain name from a speculator after it expired and was registered by the speculator. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Swerve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "opensrs discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: Re: [Re: [redemption period]] > Opensrs has stated that there is alot of paperwork required by Verisign. > Thus their (Opensrs's) fee. > > Swerve > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 15:58:03 -0300 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Re: [redemption period]] > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>> What is "all the paperwork" that everyone is talking about? > >>> Couldn't the "redemption" system be designed more efficiently/intelligently? > >>> > >> > >> "efficient/intelligent" do not exist in the "Verisign/ICANN" vocabulary. > > > > > > > > OpenSrS is charging a heafty $45 on top of Verisign fee. > > Both are playing the same game for the money. > > There is no real work to justify those fees. > > Everything could be like usual renewals, > > just a little bit more expensive. Maybe double. > > But never more than ten times more expensive. > > > > Benjamin > > > > > > >
