Yep but the DNS.be system was designed by people unfamiliar with the way the domain name business works. In the real world, registrars work to the day. The DNS.be system was probably a great system on paper when all domain invoices were handled by some university department grunt with a shoebox and a copy of Microsoft Access. That monthly billing rubbish would screw up a lot of accounting systems that are based on day type invoices. Perhaps DNS.be's system was advanced for the mickey mouse .be ccTLD but it is woefully out of date when it comes to 1M+ domain operations. In April, approximately 1.5M .eu domains expire - that's nearly three times the entire .be ccTLD. I've been doing research for the book and some of the quotes from the morons in Eurid about how they never expected to get so many registrations so quickly are astounding. And as for that whole expiry date thing - it is causing major problems because end users don't know when their .eu doms expire. The fact that registrars are going in and manually deleting domains in an effort to maintain some kind of sanity in their systems demonstrates that the scum in Eurid should never have been given the contract in the first place. (Lack of sleep and too many facts about how Eurid screwed up the sunrise and landrush has made me more cynical than usual.
)Yep that would cause a lot more problems Michele,
