5 ms·
.at domains warning
- Geekette 14y agoGood thing I didn't go with WhereMyPeeps.at for my domain name I guess...
- grantla 14y agoIn reality, Ghandi is following the AT rules in a bad way - they are using the easy way out, instead of doing what's right.
- zimbatm 14y agoI contacted the Gandi support. According to them, the NIC.at registrar doesn't allow them to break the contract on my behalf. They also say that this practice is unique to this TLD.
- ByronFortescue 14y agoI work at a Dutch registrar and we have monitored .at terminations in the past years due to this issue and making sure contracts get terminated. Since recently we are able to delete a domain for our customers through EPP so our customers don't have these problems after terminatin their contract.
- accountoftheday 14y agoThe blame should go squarely to NIC.at. A long time ago we registered a domain for my fraternity, a registered legal entity in Austria, and it was refused by NIC.at on the grounds that such a thing does not exist. A silly thing to do facing an organization with a hundred lawyers as members and some threats got them to reverse their stance but they act like the worst kind of government employee, enjoying their ill-gotten profits from a namespace monopoly in true honey badger style.
- grantla 14y agoYes, the AT rules are unique. No, Gandi doesn't have to just do nothing to warn you and let you sort it out afterwards. They have at least two options upfront: - Do what the other large international registrars do: give a fuck about the rules and just cancel the domain. - Actually tell the customer two months before and get them to explicitly cancel the domain. Or, option three: do nothing and just 'billwithdraw' the domain (this is what gives the domain back to nic.at to handle the renewal), causing lots of pain for the customer. Not saying that the AT rules are super great, but most of the blame really is on Gandi here.
- zimbatm 14y agoJust got another support response. Gandi told me that they now work around that issue properly so that the user doesn't get annoyed by NIC.at's policy.
- gitarr 14y agoThat's wrong information: On this page[1] nic.at states (under "Cancel a domain") that cancellations can be made by fax or letter. Also on the "fax confirmation" PDF[2] it says in big letters: "Please send it by fax or scanned by e-mail to: ..." [1] http://www.nic.at/en/service/ http://www.nic.at/en/service/ [2] http://www.nic.at/fileadmin/www.nic.at/documents/formulare/Cancellation.pdf http://www.nic.at/fileadmin/www.nic.at/documents/formulare/C...
- struppi 14y agoThe problem could be that they require a signature. And a scanned+emailed signature is not a valid signature under Austrian law (IIRC, IANAL, but I am from Austria). But from the PDF file in the second link from the parent comment they say that they accept email, so I would just try to mail them.
- zimbatm 14y agoThanks for keeping me honest. To be frank, I went the route of ignoring them at first, thinking it was a scam. Then I had to settle.
- dkersten 14y agoI had to send a fax to cancel something once and I used one of the email to fax services. It was quick, easy and pretty cheap for a once-off fax. I don't really think its a big problem, even though fax is clearly outdated.
- davidw 14y agoYou think that's bad... http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/18/confronting-the-bureaucratic-beast-registering-an-italian-domain http://padovachronicles.welton.it/2007/08/18/confronting-the... There's a reason why it's still really difficult to buy .it domains on regular registrars like name.com.
- ErrantX 14y agoThings have changed; I bought a .it domain a couple of years ago very easily (i.e. just like buying a .com)
- typicalrunt 14y agoTwo months ago I bought an .it domain through GoDaddy. No issues at all. Other than an expensive registration fee, the experience was similar to buying a .com/org/net domain.