RE: [gnso-pednr-dt] cost of recovery during Registrar grace period.

["James M. Bladel" <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

First, I agree with Michele that any discussion of ccTLD expiry
practices and policies is well outside the scope of this WG, and
possibly ICANN in general.  As he mentioned, ccTLDs set their own rules
(although some have participatory policy development organizations of
their own), and even -if- we were able to influence their behavior, I'm
confident that registrars (and registrants) have a laundry list of ccTLD
quirks and oddities that they'd like to change.  In the absence of this,
registrars continue to manage this patchwork of rules & policies for all
g/cc TLDs they offer, and (wherever possible) make this as seamless as
practical for registrants.

With respect to recovering names in gTLDs, registrars incur costs of at
least two forms:  First, the registry will assess a fee, which can be
significantly higher than the usual Create, Transfer, Renew charges. 
Second, the recovery process is more difficult to automate, and requires
human involvement, resulting in increased resource / staff costs for the
registrar.



J.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [gnso-pednr-dt] cost of recovery during Registrar grace
period.
From: Sivasubramanian Muthusamy <isolatedn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, January 09, 2010 5:42 pm
To: gnso-pednr-dt@xxxxxxxxx

Hello

Does the Registrar incur any costs to recover domain name during RGP? 


Here is an example of a domain name that I ALLOWED to expire, which
received the following notification from the Reseller (Registrar?)


Your domain isocindiachennai.in has expired on Nov 29, 2009 and has been
deleted from your account. You cannot renew it now. However, you still
have one last chance to get your domain name back, by using the
redemption process (details are given below). If you want to restore
your domain name, then you are required to complete the redemption
process within the next 30 days, else you may lose this domain name
forever.
 
Order Details
Order ID: 14806392
Domain Name: isocindiachennai.in
Expiry Date: Nov 29, 2009
Restore Cost Price: INR 4000.00
  

The Restore 'Cost' Price is shown as INR 4000 ( approximately US $ 90 ).
The link provided by the Reseller for the Redemption process pulled up a
page which  is printed and attached as a PDF file. This page said " The
Registry charges higher fees for restoring a domain name, and hence,
Restoration is an expensive process" 


With this rationale the Reseller quoted INR 3300 ( approximately US $ 72
). Is this the practice in general by all Registrars for all cc and
gTLDs ? If so the process of redemption during the Registrar Grace
period does not appear to be easy on the Registrant.


Attached: A screen shot of the Registrar's recovery page for this
domain.


Sivasubramanian Muthusamy