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? -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."