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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...