On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 09:13:40PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni via gtld-tech wrote:
Please note that an extension request still requires approval by the TLD registry operator to extend the expiration date. If the extension request is not approved prior to the access expiration date, the access request will expire normally.
I assume that in this case pending requests will still remain pending until the RO will get around to them.
This just happened for me today with "tirol", who took longer than ~6 days to approve the extension. The request now shows "Expired", but wouldn't it have made sense for it to automatically move to "Pending"? The original request could have been cloned as a new "Pending" request, or just re-entered the "Pending" state directly.
Of course in my case tomorrow's daily batch job will automatically file a fresh request for "tirol", and they may now have two open requests to handle. I hope this won't cause any confusion when they come around to looking at these.
Actually, the status is a bit more interesting, while "tirol" shows up as "Expired", it does not appear on the list of TLDs eligible for a renewal request, so perhaps it is in fact in some sort state that is equivalent to "Pending", while being nominally "Expired". I am curious to see what happens next... -- Viktor.