more Encirca weird behavior
OK this is just getting too weird, somebody should be watching and making these guys adhere to some sort of policy. Any consistent policy at all. I had several expired domains, with expiration dates spanning a stretch of more than a week, all removed from my account within a couple minutes today. Weird.
With any other registrar I’ve ever heard of or dealt with, they allow a certain amount of time to pass, a grace deletion period, between the expiration date and the time when the domain will be deleted from my account. Here it seems arbitrary, maybe it depends on the domain. In fact some of the recent domains have deleted, but most of the recent ones have been “moved” into an account controlled by Encirca. I think they’re taking advantage of a time when registrar activity is not being monitored by the registry. It’s a shame, because customers like me value knowing what to expect. I’m buying .pro domains elsewhere from now on.