Hello Don,
Thursday, April 26, 2001, 4:31:41 AM, Don Brown wrote:
> I don't think that anyone could disagree with the content of your response,
> William. However, easygoing was not asking anyone to breach any agreement,
> either directly, indirectly, or vaguely. Your response is really light
> years away from easygoing's the point.
No, not at all. He was using questionable practices by other
registrars, who, despite their agreements to the contrary, are
engaging in behaviors that put the registrant's at risk, to try and
justify to OpenSRS that they need to modify their behavior.
That is really exactly to his point.
OpenSRS has obligations to the end user, regardless of how you cut it.
They have done a great job balancing that, but there are some people
who think that they should have all of the rights and privileges of
fully accredited registrars, and the same type of relationship between
customer and registrar, by simply being a reseller of another
registrar.
You can draw all the analogies you want, the ICANN Accreditation
agreements make this relationship between the three parties an
absolutely unique one.
Some companies are more willing to be overly loose in viewing their
obligations to domain holders.
As a domain holder, I find that to be a reason NOT to do business with
that registrar, and to recommend to people that they not register
names with resellers of that registrar. The risk to their domain
names is too much. In essence you are asking that the registrar make
you the owner of your customers' domains, in all but the actual title.
I wouldn't recommend to any domain name registrant that they register
a domain name under those kinds of terms, especially through a third
party who has no contractual obligations via the accreditation
agreements and process involved therein.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
