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warlord.ca minibike.ca spook.ca servo.ca pleasure.ca (mine, not baremetal's -Tom)

looking for a 4+ digit price.

We used 2ez.ca for a few years as a TBR registrar (shell company) ... but I'd like to sell the three as a contribution to the retirement fund. -Tom Brown (owner/president baremetal.com)

It's basically just using the same DNS data (zone file) for multiple domains... but it requires that you either run your own DNS servers or use a DNS service that supports the idea. It's a useful concept that we've used both in our hosting and our domain-dns.com service for decades...

Billing is done, domains have been transferred, A big thank you to all the bidders. It looks like everyone has private whois, so no names from me. -Tom

I'm thinking that the current bidders may have stretched to make the current bids knowing there was a $2k barrier to the next bid, changing that after they've made their bid would strike me as a nasty thing to do. Simpler and more ethical to NOT change the rules in the middle of a high value...

OK. That's off the todo list. Code is written, just not staged. Bids from $5k to $40k should be $500 intervals, and you should be offered 10 new bid values instead of just 5. Just needs a "git pull" command after this auction closes. Thanks again.

Yes, as has been pointed out, I meant to make the change but hadn't gotten to it. I was planning on $1k increments, but now that I think about it, Smaller increments would actually fix some of the "2nd highest price" issues (bid leapfrogging). Still, I don't want to change it mid auction. Thanks...

Yes, deleting the domain early and getting it out of autoRenewPeriod sounds promising at a glance. But AFAICS all it does is move the "go to TBR" date forward. If you restore the domain, it still goes back to autoRenewPeriod. In more detail, when a registrar deletes domains and sends them into...

It depends on how accommodating these buyers are. If the offers are "today or never" then you are correct. To be honest I never really understood the logic behind letting a domain get suspended for days/weeks and then renewing it... you're paying for 12 months of registration, but the domain...

The whois update comes for free with removing the auto-renew-grace status. It's just special purpose code that needs to be maintained, and probably wouldn't be widely used ... e.g. GD isn't likely to modify their systems to optimize .CA handling. A domain restore is actually two commands: a...

I'm not familiar enough with any of those services to be able to answer. At this point, renewing a domain in auto-renew-grace doesn't do anything, so it comes down to how these various services interpret dates and status flags. And renewing a domain in Redemption period throws it back into...

Yes/no. It's not about being able to run the restore commands. You can delete a domain in auto-renew-grace. That pushes it into redemption period (immediately), at which point you can restore it... But with the "bug fix", you're just back to where you started... a domain back in...

Correct. We've known it as the 45 day rule in the .com world for ages. (Possibly since the 90s?) The situation usually comes up as a registrant forgets to renew their domain (possibly due to out of date contact info), and then decides they want to either consolidate or centralize their...

That's clearly an oversimplification. It certainly didn't happen that way at BareMetal. The timelines all fit for the one example domain I know of (expired Dec 29th, "renewed" Jan 3rd, but ended up in the Feb 15th TBR run). It suggests a failed delete/redeem/renew on the 3rd, and the registrar...

my two cents... IMHO, CIRA made an un=announced (AFAIK) change to a badly documented part of the system (and also one of the least used parts) ... Obviously that's not a good thing... but to the best of this group's knowledge (and mine), only MyID managed to make that into a complete...

I probably should summarize my current guess. affected registrar tried to do what we did (lock in a renewal) by deleting the domain and then redeeming it. Upon completing the redemption, they noted that the expiry date said the domain was renewed and their system figured things were "good"...

(neither am I... but in case clarification helps....) It's just a database entry that says a given domain was really renewed, don't delete it just because it is in auto-renew-grace and X days old (depends on the registrar aprox 35 days for us). For those registrars (like us) who "locked in"...

(for obvious reasons) you folks know the other registrars better than I do, but would you really consider continuing business with a registrar who kept your money for a sale which basically didn't complete? I know you think you don't have a choice, but you certainly could at least band together...

redeemed is NOT the same as renewed. And this is another problem with auto-renewals, the registry CAN NOT send "domain has been renewed" notices for single year renewals of domains in auto-renew-grace period, because the registrar action is "do nothing except make a mental note", and CIRA thus...

+1 for it being the only logical fair outcome. Which would logically force the TBR registrars to do refunds. (or incur a pile of really bad will.) As for checking your own renewals... AFAIK, The change came into effect Dec 15th, and should only affect domains that were renewed after they had...

CIRA made some changes to the domain redemption process that were supposed to be "not significant" shortly before Christmas. It completely broke how we handled the renewal of domains in auto-renew-grace, as we used to delete domains and redeem them to cancel the auto-renewal status, then...

That might actually tell the registry to NOT auto-renew the domain (which would fit with the locked/no-updates). .ca registrars don't have anything to do with .ca whois, so that should be a typo at CIRA . ok... Just messed with one of my domains, definitely seems to be a typo at CIRA. It's...

Yes, someone was suggesting we try to setup an official account here. As for catches, you should be seeing more.