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Re: [registrars] FYI re: Transfers

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  • Subject: Re: [registrars] FYI re: Transfers
  • From: Sam BAVAFA <s.bavafa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:47:32 +0200
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Hi to all

After i saw the ICANN post, I was reading carefully all your comments on
transfer issue and generally about the fact that in people mind (registrants
and registrars + generally all contracts between them), a life time for a
domain name is one year (365 days).

Many of our problems caused by actions took after or near this fateful 365
days period will be simply resolved if we change a place of the expiration
date from the place previous to Auto-Renew Grace period to after (as you can
see in my plan attached on Scenario 1).

This is the way that's working on almost all annual based fees such as
insurances or magazine subscription. We must offer the client the
possibility to take his decision to keep his domain before its expires and
not to allow continuously posterior separates periods for any reason. The
most abvious example is the actual life-Cycle! So complicated for nothing??
Registrars are blocking for Reason A or B or C or even inventing some
legitime reasons because the domain passed its 365 days life.

So it would be nice to receive your comments on this. Maybe i ignore some
"reasons" that makes this solution impossible or "bad" or maybe i miss
something on this logic?

Nevertheless, i would like also to share with you another possibility i
considered but still on second position because less obvious but more
appropriate to me.

At the beginning, i was considering that the "expiration" may come even
after the Redemption Grace Period (Scenario 2) and i still beleive on it.
This would keep the unconditional alarm effect of a non working domain and
wake up the owner. The only problem can because these 30 days RGP inside the
365 days wich are supposed to work should work, and the domain name should
stay operational for the paid period. So in such situation, if the
registrant do not want to renew his domain name, he may be able to use his
domain name for the entire 365 days. How to do this?

So the solution is that we don't have to block the domain during the whole
30 days. Once the domain (which has not been renewed on the past Auto-renew
Grace period) enter to the RGP and stops working, the owner can decide to
renew it (action YES) or to do not renew it (action NO). One of these
actions is required to reactivate the domain name. If the answer is NO, the
domain will work for the last 30 days before becoming available again, but
the owner can change NO into YES at anytime within the 30 days of RGP. It is
considered as abandoned after his RGP if NO is not changed into YES. If
there is no answer from the owner, it means that he do not care about his
domain and his domain is even not active. In such case, the last 30 days of
the domain name will stay offline before release and this will not change
anything for the owner who do not even know that his domain is not working
anymore.

This required action is also a good way to make the costumer decide to
choose the NO answer with all it's consequences.

If the owner wake up during the RGP, he can still renew it at any moment
during the last 30 days by answering YES or NO.

The registrant can decide to transfer his domain name in any situation
before the expiration. The transfer should be initiated before the end of
RGP. That would be the only condition.

Of course, all requirements to validate a transfer should be established
according the RAA rules.

Best Regards
Sam BAVAFA
Domaine.fr

P.S. If the attached document is not included on this email, you can find it
here :

http://www.novamedias.com/gtld-life-Cycle-Domaine.fr.jpg










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