Hey Chuck,
Looks like a great vacation you are having :)
He keeps going, and going, and going....
Monday, June 25, 2001, 6:59:41 AM, Charles Daminato wrote:
> Ok, as a follow up to this.
> Dave Warren was kind enough to offer up a test domain (which we were kind
> enough to renew for him). Turns out that if someone uses renew.cgi, they
> will charge the renewal (which gets charged to the Reseller hosting the
> renew.cgi, not the domain sponsoring RSP - which is the way it's supposed
> to be). Unfortunately, setting "auto-renew" also alters the flag in the
> other reseller's account.
> We'll have to either disable that, or get notification sent to the current
> sponsoring RSP. This potentially means that this has already happened,
> and if you're paranoid you might want to check. It wont affect you for at
> least a year (since the domain has a year added on), but... you never
> know.
> I'll keep everyone posted. There'll likely be some announcement made
> regarding this to all resellers. (Hope that doesn't inadvertantly give
> them ideas...).
> Charles Daminato
> TUCOWS Product Manager
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Charles Daminato wrote:
>> William,
>>
>> I just gave this a try - and the answer is yes. I can login to a domain
>> (say, one sponsored by "chuck") at another RSPs interface (say, "chuck2"),
>> and turn on Auto-Renew. However, the "chuck2" RSP will pay for the
>> initial renewal. You cannot just turn Auto-Renew "on" (unless you're the
>> sponsoring RSP), via renew.cgi you have to auto-renew first.
>>
>> We'll have to work on that, at least to give the sponsoring RSP notice
>> that the domain's renewal status has changed (remember, I did this in
>> Horizon, which has slightly disabled renewal management).
>>
>> If you use manage.cgi, you get this:
>>
>> Set Auto-Renew Request Failure! Reason:Fail (only sponsoring RSP can set
>> auto-renew for <domain>)
>>
>> So for manage, you cannot set auto-renew blindly (which does not require
>> you to renew).
>>
>> To be certain with renew.cgi, you'd have to try it with a domain on the
>> live system - I'm willing to move a domain to my RSP account if you have
>> one you're willing to test to be sure.
>>
>> Charles Daminato
>> TUCOWS Product Manager
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, William X. Walsh wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Charles,
>> >
>> > Sunday, June 24, 2001, 6:31:51 PM, Charles Daminato wrote:
>> >
>> > > Simply means it's off by default. Upon consideration, we have a warning
>> > > that "if you turn it on, be careful", yet we had it on anyway. So we
>> > > thought it prudent to have it off by default - so you're concious about
>> > > what you're about to do :)
>> >
>> > Ok, and let's say that an RSP has it on (just to clarify a concern I
>> > know some have raised in the past, but I can't find a definite answer
>> > on as far as current practice).
>> >
>> > Can another RSP's client login to that RSP's interface and turn on
>> > Auto-Renew from there?
>> >
>> > And if so, what can be done to control this?
>> >
>> > --
>> > Best regards,
>> > William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > Userfriendly.com Domains
>> > The most advanced domain lookup tool on the net
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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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