Great points - my view from earlier was that it really isn’t the
registrar’s job to make sure someone’s doing is cfg’d properly. I
would much rather have the registrar take a more hand-off approach to
configuring domains rather than the alternative. Just imagine
registrars who try and poke their nose into such things…
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On 1 Feb 2021, at 14:21, Gerald Galster wrote:
That aside, IMHO, this is a huge screw-up for SC - not even in the
realm of acceptable…
On the other hand, why did the domain registrar put a blanket entry
for
*.spamcop.net pointing to their server's IP when the domain expired
instead of
just returning NXDOMAIN?
Because you can't make money with NXDOMAIN.
If a domain expired it's technically not your domain anymore.
A page with adverts can generate revenue while you have the chance
to get your domain reactivated. Some registrars chose to do it that
way.
I don't like it but without that redemption period your domain
would be gone and most likely registered by a company that buys and
sells
domain names. Getting it back would be much more expensive.
It depends on the registrars terms and conditions:
https://www.enom.com/kb/kb/kb_0402-what-happens-domain-expires.htm
https://sedo.com/us/about-us/news-press/newsroom/enom-partners-with-sedo-to-distribute-new-and-premium-internet-domain-names/
Best regards
Gerald
