Public Comment - Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery

["R K Hayden" <rk.hayden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Responses to the 5 questions posed.

1) Whether adequate opportunity exists for registrants to redeem 
their expired domain names; 
Yes. I have received reminders from a month before expiration to a 
month after expiration, both from my registrar and registry.

2) Whether expiration-related provisions in typical registration 
agreements are clear and conspicuous enough; 
Problem with agreements is more that information on how to expire a 
domain is not conspicuous enough: domains auto-renew and provisions 
for cancellation are either antiquated or unclear.

3) Whether adequate notice exists to alert registrants of upcoming 
expirations; 
Yes. As noted in answer to (1), notice received one month prior to 
expiration.

4) Whether additional measures need to be implemented to indicate 
that once a domain name enters the Auto-Renew Grace Period, it has 
expired (e.g., hold status, a notice on the site with a link to 
information on how to renew, or other options to be determined); 
No, and the suggestion of placing a notice on the site could be very 
detrimental to registrants' commercial interests.

5) Whether to allow the transfer of a domain name during the 
Redemption Grace Period (RGP).
As the registrant is effectively in default during the RGP, allowing 
them to transfer the domain during this period would seem to be 
giving them benefits they have not paid for. It could also possibly 
be open to abuse (e.g. transferring to an affiliate at the end of 
the RGP, to effectively extend ownership for the duration of RGP 
without cost).