> ... and the registrant is the person who pays the registrar money.
Incorrect - the registrant (SLD Holder if you want to be precise) is the
entity that has agreed to the RA and the UDRP. Think about the ramifications
of that for a second.
> In a reseller situation, where the reseller is not "defined" as a reseller
> (by ICANN) the reseller is, himself, a registrant who is choosing to
> surrender his registration shortly after (or immediately upon)
registration.
>
Try and explain that to a customer...
> My point is that SRS should make it easy for registrant/RSP's to reserve
> names in the registrant/RSP's name, but to keep track of the information
> requester/end-user would like to have associated with the domain, so that
> the registrant/RSP can later transfer that domain to them at their
leisure.
That would be classed as front-running under forthcoming regulation...
-rwr
PS - can we trim some of the cc lines - I really don't need two and three
copies of this exchange....