At 5/14/01 9:30 AM, easygoing wrote:
>The point that you and William continue to ignore in your
>arguments is that the reseller provided you enough proof of
>non-payment to suspend the domain, or in reality, to take it
>away from the end user for non-payment.
The point that people who think OpenSRS is tying their hands are ignoring
is that with a couple of hour's work, you can "layer" an extra,
intermediate password between your end users and the OpenSRS system. This
way only you know the real OpenSRS password -- it can still be managed by
the end-user, but only through your interface that translates the
passwords.
This gives you complete control of the domains if you wish, while
allowing you to leave it in the end-user's name so that it can still be
transferred and owned by the actual end-user. Shove something in your TOS
that says you own unpaid domains, and you're done. (This scheme doesn't
protect against people transferring domains away after 60 days but before
the chargeback -- but neither do the schemes other registrars give their
resellers.)
And the point that people who think OpenSRS's current policy actually
protects end-users are ignoring is that any rogue reseller would
obviously use the scheme above (or a simpler scheme of just logging
passwords) to get full control of any domain he wanted. So the policy
does nothing whatsoever to enhance protection for the end-user against
rogue OpenSRS resellers (and may in fact lessen protection due to a
weaker audit trail vs. registrars who can tell the difference between
changes made by a reseller and changes made by an end-user).
But if OpenSRS's policy fulfills some legal requirement (and they
obviously believe it does), that's the way it has to be. You might as
well just bite the bullet and layer the passwords like this if it really
means that much to you; it's really not hard to do. Certainly less effort
than switching to another registrar, all other things being equal.
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