A small grumble

-- inappropriate renewal notices

[buckworks]

Over the past year I've bought a few domain names from assorted places, and to make management easier I've transferred them all into my account with one registrar.

Trouble is, I keep getting urgent renewal notices from the "old" registrars.

Do these folks not notice that the domain is now being managed somewhere else?

[pmkpmk]

They might try to lure you into transferring these domains to them back again.

What does your new registrat say?

[buckworks]

I don't hear from the new registrar because the domains are paid ahead for at least a year, in most cases longer.

[Webwork]

Here's a bit of treachery: Sometimes those "renew now" links & processes trigger a transfer back to the registrar. Of course, this consequence is often in the fine print, on page 3.

[frankray]

I receive the same.

And yes it is treacherous.

[Dan_Norder]

If it's one thing I've noticed in dealing with registrars, it's that their capacity for evil is far outweighed by their capacity for stupidity.

There are two separate databases of information for domain name ownership: the main one, and then the one the registrar uses. It's not at all uncommon for the registar one to not match up with the real one, usually from transfers but sometimes a renewal not being passed on to the main database and sometimes a renewal that you ordered once going to the main one twice...

I think it's a good idea that anytime you do something to update whois data, registration date, registrar in charge, etc., that you verify that the main records are updated correctly too.