On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 05:52:35PM +0100, Thomas Corte 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. It's normal for a buyer of something to figure that the person they actually deal with is the source of information, and the basic problem here is that the domain life cycle registrar-registry is not aligned with the contract life cycle registrant-registrar. I haven't a real clue how to fix that, because it's built into the business models of many registrars. A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn asullivan@dyn.com