Loren Stocker wrote:
None of this illegal or unethical, WITH consent.
Yes, of course; the registrant would then simply be designating Tucows as his or her agent to sell it, which is just fine.
My message was questioning what happens if, as James put it, "the previous registrant is AWOL during the renewal process".
(And I'll add one more objection here: if the previous registrant is AWOL, Tucows usually won't be able to contact the registrant to provide his or her portion of the auction money anyway. So then what happens? I presume Tucows and/or the reseller are going to keep the cash. If so, the "we're doing this to help registrants" excuse is painfully disingenuous. But perhaps I'm selling Tucows short. James, care to comment on what happens to unclaimed registrant auction money under the Tucows plan?)
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