For Sale Gandi won't allow REDEMPTION renewal -- ICANN violation?

[MerlinK]

Gandi says they don't do REDEMPTION period renewals at any fee -- is this a violation of ICANN regulations?

-Merlin
[email protected]

 

[Anthony Ng]

Apparently yes. The whole concept of RGP (Redemption Grace Period) IS to allow registrants to "restore" domain names that would have been deleted, with a fee.

And according to Verisign's .com/.net registry operator report, Gandhi did allow restoration of expired domains in 2004, at least as late as April:

http://www.icann.org/tlds/monthly-reports/

 

[MerlinK]

Gandi's response:

"If you ask the question to the Icann, you can know that it is not an obligation to provide this service.

So Gandi does not provide this service."

True or not?

 

[owen]

Registrars are NOT obligated to provide the service. It seems it would be in their best interest to do so though.

 

[keyser]

You can renew a domain around 1 month after expiration at Gandi.
It is just a question of semantics here : they simply do not call this "redemption period".

 

[skylight]

perhaps next time move away from Gandi as fast as possible.
i have few domains there, moving away just in case.

 

[keyser]

They are not that bad IMO.
Used them several times, never had a problem.

Would not say the same with Register.it :-/

 

[MerlinK]

They are not that bad IMO.
Used them several times, never had a problem.

Would not say the same with Register.it :-/

They don't even have an automated update system -- it's done through paper submission process -- that's ridiculous -- it's almost 2005.

Gandi won't allow REDEMPTION renewals for one reason, plain and simple: they're partnered with a backorder service and want to make money from that, as opposed to serving their customers.

Scandalous.