on Thu, 24 Jan 2008
12:31:40 -0800
> Okay, full disclosure on what exactly I'm doing.
It helps get the correct answer.
> I don't want their domain names.
>
> Every producer, session player and studio owner seems to have their own
> domain and they _never_ remember to renew until after their DNS entry
> goes away.
>
> I work with these guys. I pay money to these guys. These guys take my
> phone calls.
>
> I want to be the white knight that calls them up and says, "hey, do you
> realize you only have 48 hours to renew your domain name?" In some
> cultures this would be called brownie points or something worse, but
> hey, it's Hollywood.
You already know it is going to be very hard to automate this. So here is what
I suggest. Manually do the whois and get the expiration date. Enter a date of
a week earlier into a calendar program so you get an alert when the time
expires. When the alert goes off check again to see if you need to make your
call. You could check a week after to make sure they did the renew and then
set the your calendar to the new expiration date. The initial setup may take
some time but once it is going it will not require much attention.
> If their domain does expire, nothing really bad will happen. No great
> bodily harm will befall their great grandmothers. No chickens named
> Little will be screaming to the falling skies as they run helter-skelter
> about the barn yard.
True but they may lose their domain name and depending who acquired it it may
cost a bunch to retrieve it. Switching domain names is a real pain in the ....
You could always use godaddy to register their expired domain name and then
return it for a small fee to cover your expenses and maybe a little extra (as
you as it is Hollywood).
--
Robert Blair
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