Hello, On 27/01/2016 18:48, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
Alternatively, the "Registry Expiry Date" Whois field could be renamed to "Registry Renewal Date", which (for auto-renewing registries) reflects the real meaning much better and sounds less worrying to clueless registrants.
I can see some advantage there, but the basic problem is that it requires the registrant to have some sort of model of how the registration business works; to the extent the registrant is wrong, it gets a bad picture of how things are going to work.
The main problem is that, unlike most other industries, the domain business publicly exposes (via the registry's Whois) data of its "wholesale" vendors to end customers. Not understanding that data has the potential to worry them. If I could see that e.g. my electricity company's contract with its supplier is about to end (without knowing for sure it's going to be renewed), I might get worried, too. /Thomas -- ____________________________________________________________________ | | | knipp | Knipp Medien und Kommunikation GmbH ------- Technologiepark Martin-Schmeißer-Weg 9 44227 Dortmund Deutschland Dipl.-Informatiker Tel: +49 231 9703-0 Thomas Corte Fax: +49 231 9703-200 Stellvertretender Leiter SIP: Thomas.Corte@knipp.de Software-Entwicklung E-Mail: Thomas.Corte@knipp.de Registereintrag: Amtsgericht Dortmund, HRB 13728 Geschäftsführer: Dietmar Knipp, Elmar Knipp