On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 6:38 PM Robert L Mathews <lists@tigertech.com> wrote:
I didn't see the page, but for what it's worth, this is governed by this ICANN policy:> https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/errp-2013-02-28-en
It is common that registrars repoint nameservers and redirect web traffic when a domain's renewal has not been paid for (during 45-day grace period provided by the registry), probably more registrars do that than not. The issue here is not with the expired domain, thus not addressed by that ICANN policy... The ICANN policy addresses interrupting the resolution path and redirecting Web traffic for expiring domains; there's nothing about other services on those domains such as DNS when the expired domain has a backup nameserver host of a non-expired domain. In this case, interrupting the resolution path would be fine (In case the non-expired domain have other nameservers), But the redirection causes DNS instability and failures for domains that are not expired, even if those domains have other nameservers, and the non-expired domains get redirected to a web page falsely stating that they are expired. -- -JH