I don't really see what all the fuss is about. From my perspective, a 1-year domain registration creates a 1-year contract between the registrant, myself, and Tucows. At the point that the domain expires without renewal, all obligations and responsibilities (other than those mandated by ICANN) expire with it. If the registrant doesn't want their domain to point to a DNS error, 404 error, or anything else, then ... hmmmm ... perhaps they should renew their domain name.
As a web host, I can see some potential benefit to this. If a customer visited his/her domain and saw a page explaining that the registration had expired, they'd have an immediate answer to their questions about why their web site and e-mail weren't working. That would save both me and the customer time and energy. With that in mind, I'd prefer the ability to customize the page my customers see, with a direct link to my renewal form (and maybe some advertising, too.) I would see that as a great benefit. I don't see much benefit to a generic 404 page, though - - better to tell them up front why they're seeing something unexpected. James _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
