Hi Anthony who has told you this at auDA or the PRP?
I did not ask anyone. PRP is not relevant to the 1 July 2018 pricing. Recommendations from the PRP will only be presented to the board in Q4 2018. I was on the 2015 Name Panel and I know from memory that there was no recommendation to change it. I remember is came up and was discussed for about a minute before being dismissed as not important (which is code for "too hard"). Since that was the last panel to run to completion and make formal recommendations for the board to consider I can pretty much guarantee that free CoR has not been presented to the board for formal consideration yet.
In the interests of science I went to the effort of testing it for you on the OTE system Afilias has provided us. My Registry balance was higher before the 1 year CoR so I can guarantee you that CoRs will cost money in 3 weeks time. Also the expiry date for the domain after the CoR was 1 year away from today so I can also confirm that you also lose your registration period.
So people register for 5 years and then sell the name or change owners after 1 year and lose 4 years worth of the cost with a new auDA red tape COR fee?
Yes people still lose their registration period, this is not a new cost, it is however a bigger cost.
How is this looking after Consumers and not auDA, Afilias and the Registrar profiteering from costly red tape that other domain name extensions do not have ? Are you against FREE COR for your own commercial profits as a drop catcher?
I agree it is not looking after Portfolio Holders, general consumers are not affected as they hardly ever sell domain names.
I/We are not against free CORs.
We have lead the way in reducing CoR costs for consumers by making the process as easy as possible, ask around, Drop invented paperless CoR and we also made the price close to the cost of a renewal as possible years before anyone else did.
There is however a process to follow to change policy, and that process requires it to be discussed by an advisory panel before being presented to the board for consideration. Long before being implemented by a Registry. It is a long slow process so try to get it on the PRPs radar so they can present it for consideration at the end of this year.
The Philippines even has FREE COR and they do a manual process at the admin body!
auDA has no excuses not to do this.
Government stated auDA must stop it's profiteering! This is a very simply start.
There is no profit in CoRs as there are so few done per year, I don't think this can be seen as a revenue stream by auDA or registrars, even drop catchers don't rely on this as a form of income.
- Anthony