Eric, One clarification. COM and NET expiry dates are moved forward at the registry upon expiry, but in our database, we continue to display the current expiry date information because Tucows holds the authoritative information on these names.
Greg Frank Product Manager, TLDs Tucows -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Greg Frank Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:16 AM To: Eric Longman; [email protected] Subject: Re: [domains-gen] WHOIS and Expiration Dates Eric, The registries have the authoritative data for the WHOIS and Tucows pulls this information from them. The registry will advance the date by one year upon expiration and then we pull this information from them. This is the case for .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO & .NAME. The registry for .BIZ and .US no longer does this, so you will see the correct expiry date in the whois, even after the domain has expired but has not yet deleted. We understand the confusion and frustration that can arise from this. We have asked the registries to follow the BIZ/US handling of this, but no decisions have been made regarding this. Greg Frank Product Manager, TLDs Tucows -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Longman Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [domains-gen] WHOIS and Expiration Dates I discovered a problem today with the way WHOIS reports expiration dates. I'm aware that the registry automatically renews domain names for a year when they hit their expiration date, and that TUCOWS will get credit for the year if the domain name is dropped within some period of time. The problem is that (for .ORG names, at least) WHOIS reports the EXTENDED renewal date when you query it, rather than the "correct" expiration date. That is to say that the WHOIS system doesn't distinguish between a domain that has been renewed by the customer and one that's been automatically renewed but not yet actually renewed by the customer. You can imagine the support email trying to explain this to a customer, whose eyes tell him from WHOIS output that his domain has not actually expired, even though it has. I think I've dealt with my specific problem, but has anybody else run into this? Is there any way for TUCOWS' WHOIS servers to report the correct expiration date when queried? -- Regards, Eric Longman zConnect - Internet Solutions for Business 800 Kennesaw Ave Ste 140 Marietta, GA 30060-1052 http://www.zconn.net 770 590-0888 800 959-8896 _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
