Hi Francis,

Thanks very much for your time in replying.

Obvsiously misunderstood the policies, because I thought no matter when 
you transferred, you automatically started a new 2yr term.  Therefore, I 
was under the impression that you virtually lose the time you had left 
with the old Registrar.

However, you are saying a .au domain can be transferred to a different 
Registrar any time within the last 3 months before expiry, and your 2 yr 
renewal expiry date stands.

I hope I'm interpreting it correctly now.

Thanks, Sandra

On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 08:53 , IntaServe | Francis wrote:

> Hi Sandra,
>
> With .au domain name tranferring/renewing process between Registrar to
> Registrar level:
>
> 1.  The answer is "Yes",  you can transfer from an OLD Registrar to a 
> NEW
> Registrar at any time, BUT
> making sure that the date that you wish to initiate the transfer of 
> your .au
> domain name MUST BE WITHIN the "90days" BEFORE your .au domain expiry 
> date
> (ie, only within 3 mths), then you only have to pay for the renewal fee 
> for
> another 2 years of registration.
>
> What if you transfer an .au domain name BEFORE the "90days" of its 
> expiry
> date (say, 120days before its expiry date) ? Then your domain name's  
> NEW
> EXPIRY DATE will start its new  2 yrs of registration STARTING from the 
> date
> that you initiate the TRANSFER request (ie. your OLD expiry days has 
> been
> moved BACK by 120 days)
>
>
> 2.  "[your original message]...waiting until the last week or few days
> before expiry, is OK?":
> Yes, of course you can leave it to the last 24 hours if you wish, BUT 
> you
> have to make sure that your NEW REGISTRAR will act on your 
> TRANSFER/RENEW
> domain request ASAP, otherwise your domain website and its mail service 
> will
> be STOPPED (ie.  Your domain name status will be changed to 
> PendingDelete)
> until your NEW Registrar initiates the request for transfer with your 
> given
> correct "Registry Key".  Please DONOT take risk by leaving your domain 
> name
> to the last minute because you can transfer/renew your domain name 
> WITHIN
> the 90days of its expiry date ("90days buffer zone"), which will be much
> safer.
>
> OR
>
> what you can do is to telephone your NEW registrar to set up your 
> account
> ready and place your domain name into their "domain name renewal 
> reminder
> system", so at least your NEW registrar will start send out domain name
> renewal email notification to you as soon as it reaches 90days, 45days,
> 30days, 14days, 7days of its expiry date.  Please make sure that you 
> also
> ask about the renewal fee, and compares with other registrar for you 
> best
> deal in renewing your .au domain name.
>
> If you have any other queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at
> queries§intaserve.com or by telephoning us on 1800 800 071
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Francis
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: webdesign§virtualvisions.com.au
> [mailto:webdesign§virtualvisions.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2003 07:27
> To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: [DNS] Transfer / Renewal
>
>
> Hello again,
>
> A couple of weeks ago I posted a two-fold query re selling a domain name
> and placenames. Thank you all for your replies. I still have a few
> questions regarding this, but will come back to it in due course.
>
> Another question today ... I've read the new policies and am I correct
> in that a Registrant can transfer (thereby renewing) their .au domain to
> a different Registrar  any time before it expires? So, waiting until the
> last week or few days before expiry, is OK?
>
> Thanks for any confirmation on this.
>
> Regards, Sandra
>
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