Having an RWI interface to specify who the 60 day notice goes to seems like a really good idea to me.
Why stop at putting the destination of the 60 day notice in the RWI? As a reseller, how do I know which contact each of my domain clients wants as the official contact? Why not leave that up to the individual customer? There are lots of reasons to keep this simple, but the question is begging. (and you asked. :-) -- Tim. On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Andrew McCallum wrote: > Huh, I thought this would generate way more discussion. I'm collecting > feedback on this internally though and should have something soon. My > understanding is that the 5-day message is sent out to all contacts on > the domain, and this is an ICANN requirement. (those fans of the "Let > Expire" setting loooove this one) > > -andrewm > > > dnsadmin wrote: > > Doesn't it seem illogical to you, that when a domain renewal comes up, and > > it is up to them to pay for the renewal, that the billing contact only gets > > a 5 day notice? > > > > I can understand that for registrar transfers, the person who manages the > > domain (admin) should be notified -- but for an approaching expiration, it > > should be BOTH the admin + billing contacts that get the notice. > > > > Does anyone else agree? > > > > We've had issues where the admin contact is the webmaster, and the site > > owner (and domain owner) is the Organizational contact and billing contact. > > > > At the 5 day before expiry mark, usually the billing contact will show up in > > a panic, an they demand to know why the admin contact knew about the > > upcoming expiry before they did. > > > > Does it not make sense that a domain that is expiring should be of concern > > to the designated billing contact? > > > > Finally, in the RWI, if you could have a configurable option that would say: > > > > 60 day notice, send to: __ Admin ___ Tech ___ Billing > > > > So you could specify which contacts, get which expiration notices? > > > > I understand that domain transfers must go to the admin, but expiration > > notices shouldn't have the same restriction. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] BareMetal.com http://baremetal.com/ Dev Team ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
