[thelist] My chat with Network Solutions

[Dave Fitch]

CDitty <mail at redhotsweeps.com> said:

>They wouldn't elaborate on the grace period.

The grace period is the amount of time they spend trying to convince 
you to renew. The length of time obviously/probably depends on how 
expensive the services the original owner is buying from them are.

>How can they continue to get away with this?  Where are the checks 
>and balances? If a domain expires on a certain date, then it should 
>be released soon after.

In an ideal world everyone understands how these things work. The 
reality is most people don't. Addresses change, NetSol doesn't get 
informed, ISP's bugger things up, crap happens. A system with no 
leeway whatsoever is ripe for abuse I think, though I'm not saying 
that there shouldn't be some published limit on how long the grace 
period runs.

But let's be honest Chris. If you know enough to know that the domain 
registration has expired, you're probably one of them anarchists 
who'll go off and register the domain through another registrar and 
give NetSol all of $6. You're not their target market ;-)
Dave
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