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Free COR change of registrant

DomainNames

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DomainNames, Mate you're way off base about Registrars, well speaking for a group of 5 or so anyway. COR's are a pain in the ass for us, we need to train staff, need to answer about a billion questions/complaints from Registrants, we either need to allocate resources to a manual process, or invest development time to build automated systems. Even with an automated process some registrants still want to use a manual process as they don't have or don't want to use a credit card.

There are very few COR's on a monthly basis, the ones we do would represent about 0.000001% of our monthly gross revenue.

So I'd **much** rather we just went in line with gTLD's where users can update their own Registrant contact. We provide the interface and that's the end of our involvement. I can't imagine there is a Registrar out there thinking they are going to make money out of COR's. Generally a high cost of COR isn't reflective of a cash grab but a deterrent to actually having to do the bloody things.

Awesome to see your support on FREE Change Of Registrant.

Let's have the auDA Policy Review Panel make the required policy update suggestions now formally and auDA Board / auDA / Afilias etc can make it happen 1st July 2018 without further delays.

Everyone wins.
 

DomainNames

Top Contributor
typo "flat" should be "flag". Raise it and put it on the suggestions. I think it may already be there but we need to make sure for 1st July 2018 go live.
 

Lemon

Top Contributor
Technically COR is already free.

Under the current Policy a Change of Registrant results in a new domain license being granted. The COR is free but the license is not.

Question 13 of the PRP is that where a domain name licence is transferred between registrants, should the transferee receive the benefit of the remainder of the licence period. If this should be passed by the Board and the new policy reflect this then there will be no new license fee involved which means free COR.

However as the registrars would have to process the paperwork it is still up to them to decide if a fee should be charged. It would be illegal for auDA to insist that this is free. Of course a registrar that does a free COR will probably get the business and possibly a new client.

I would encourage everyone to say YES to question 13 of the issue paper. Of course policy change will not happen until the PRP makes it's recommendations to the Board and the Board votes on it. So don't expect free COR until then. (2019)
 

DomainNames

Top Contributor
Technically COR is already free.

Under the current Policy a Change of Registrant results in a new domain license being granted. The COR is free but the license is not.

Question 13 of the PRP is that where a domain name licence is transferred between registrants, should the transferee receive the benefit of the remainder of the licence period. If this should be passed by the Board and the new policy reflect this then there will be no new license fee involved which means free COR.

However as the registrars would have to process the paperwork it is still up to them to decide if a fee should be charged. It would be illegal for auDA to insist that this is free. Of course a registrar that does a free COR will probably get the business and possibly a new client.

I would encourage everyone to say YES to question 13 of the issue paper. Of course policy change will not happen until the PRP makes it's recommendations to the Board and the Board votes on it. So don't expect free COR until then. (2019)

COR is proposed to be FREE from 1st July 2018. Let's see if the auDA Board approves it... Some of the Board would not even know what it means perhaps..I hope the learn more and fast.
 

Cherie Quin

Regular Member
free Cor is a great idea, it will save us and our clients a lot of money. We buy domains for our clients when we build their sites a lot of them time
 

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