[24591] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: billing for "friendly" name transfer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Brown)
Mon Jul 19 22:46:06 1999
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 22:44:09 -0400
From: Andrew Brown <twofsonet@graffiti.com>
To: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
Cc: Carl Malamud <carl@invisible.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Andrew Brown <atatat@atatdot.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.56.19990719184729.00a8f3a0@shell2.bayarea.net>; from Dave Crocker on Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:50:51PM -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 06:50:51PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
>At 06:07 PM 7/19/99 , Carl Malamud wrote:
>> 2) On December 31, you transfer that domain name to
>> corporation B, which pays $70, good for two years.
i just started wondering about that whether or not they would do such
a thing. thank you for confirming my fears. :)
>At the risk of distracting your query, but not wanting to -- and hence I've
>changed the Subject line -- I'm finding myself also wondering why a
>friendly transfer should cost anything at all, never mind an entire $70.
>
>The NSI charging model lets one make changes to the registration fields for
>free. If the transfer is a friendly movement, then it is no different from
>any other change of information to the fields.
the "company owner" transfer is a little more complicated, since it
can no longer be accomplished with a "single transaction". one used
to be able to just send in a form that changed that information. now
one must send in a single message with a "delete" request and a "new"
request. presumably the domain gets "newed" which triggers the $70
charge, but never actually gets "deleted", leaving the old billing
cycle intact.
i was considering transferring some domains between names, but in
light of this, i think i'll hold off. besides...how would i get
credit for the "unused" portin of the registration fee that i had
paid?
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