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01-29-07 Domain Transfer Hassles
Domain Name Transfers turn into a lot of work..
Especially for "one" year only. For what comes to just a couple dollars, consider the hour and a half it takes to:
a. research the whois and contact info for the domain.
b. Log in and fill out the complicated email transfer form.
c. Arrange all DNS initialization and records.
d. Assume the risk for any email mis-configuration.
e. Handle half a dozen or more email correspondance.
Our standard "fee" for handling "Transfers" should be $80 (billed to you as $56 you charge $80 and get $24 [30%])or we should think about how we structure it to waive the fee... I got it.. 5 year renewal (minimum) waives the $80 fee. We charge you 13.50 per and you charge $15 per. It is less money w/o the fee but pays for itself in that neither you nor I nor client has to worry about the domain name for 5 years.
Less than 5 years should be consided enough of an imposition to require the fee.
Transfers = Any domain name manipulation not covered or requested per or under any setup arrangement.
At some point the Domain Registry of America (Canada) will send your client an authentic looking bill in the U.S. mail to renew his domain name with them. (This might happen 18 months from now) We'll also have to handle this email question and made much worse if they fall for it and send it in.
Toward this end, we should not put in client information in the new registration settings. Your client had this info in his old settings making it easy for Network Solutions, Domain Registry and others be able to send phony invoices which inevitably involves a question to us.
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