Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Sander <jim@federation.addy.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: What if registrar folds? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10112180833410.21367-100000@federation.addy.com> In-Reply-To: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A02472526237A6B9@NETIVITY-FS>
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> > what happens if the registrar goes bankrupt? The absolute truth I think is that nobody knows for sure right now. (witness the recent issues resulting in proposal of a fee escrow system) But we can guess what might happen- *if* the process were rational... Short-term I imagine that domains controlled by that registrar would continue in a steady-state until such time as the pieces could be put back together. The only way I can see that causing problems is if you have a domain that goes "On Hold" just before the registrar dies- you'd be out of commission for non-payment, but there'd be nobody to pay. (moral of the story, make sure you keep your account current with your registrar) Long-term I think it's likely that before any registrar goes bankrupt one of their competitors will absorb them- and thus their customers. I highly doubt any domains would be sold out from under anyone, and suspect that because of the uniform domain name policy that can't legally happen. (which is not to guaranty it won't) Remember that it's not terribly difficult to do a registrar-transfer, and unless you're bumping up against the 10-year limit you won't lose any time that you pay for. So, bottom line is that the risk is probably low. > networksolutions' web controls Contrary to what someone else said, for day-to-day registration activities I don't think it matters much. As far as I know, only the odd-ball registrars (for a few ccTLDs) make you involve a human at any stage of the normal domain life-cycle. The problem (ignoring price) I see with networksolutions is that their service, from an ISP perspective especially, is "somewhat lacking." That said, please, let's try to avoid a flame-war about networksolutions, or the "I use <x> and they're good" types of cluttery discussions. There are plenty of them in the archive already. -=Jim=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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