The Admin contact is just a place holder. The registrant has legal control over the domain - if the Admin contact disappears, any registrar should allow the registrant to request a specific change to the Administrative contact.
Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Jack Broughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: October 30, 2001 12:39 PM > To: Charles Daminato; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Confirming with non-existing email > > > I'm a little interested in the "that user" portion of this response > Charles. Having been in this business a long time I've run into real > life situations of the admin contact embezzling money from the company > and dropping off the face of the earth (rumoured to be Australia but > that's almost redundant :), the admin contact dying, the admin contact > being incarcerated with no computer priveleges and the admin contact > injured to the point of incapacitation. I'm not sure what is imposed > upon a registrar by ICANN rules but hopefully some of this stuff would > be defined by your policies as a registrar and not dictated from on > high. > > Hopefully there's a fallback position for "officers of the company" etc. > listed as registrant to facilitate such things in the very unlikely > event there is absolutely no contact possible with the listed admin > contact. > > There are tons of domains at NSI that just get renewed every year with > them because there is no means to transfer them away (the admin contact > is listed as owner and all 3 contacts) and the company just pays the > renewal to keep the domain up. > > So, in short, there's no incentive for OpenSRS to provide alternative > means to transfer domains out of their control but I wondered if they do > have a means for this. (Just wondered if we're a little more open to > such things than Verisign). If it can only be managed by a court order > is it a Canadian court that needs to be used or what? > > Thanks Charles. > > Jack > Charles Daminato wrote: > > > > Unfortunately the only way to approve this is via the transfers > interface - > > if the current Admin email is incorrect, that user has to get > that altered > > at the current registrar to continue with the process. > > > > Charles Daminato > > OpenSRS Product Manager > > Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kai Schaetzl > > > Sent: October 30, 2001 8:32 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Confirming with non-existing email > > > > > > > > > In the case the OpenSRS confirmation email bounces (and there's no > > > easy way to get it changed) is there another way that OpenSRS accepts > > > a transfer initiation (*to* OpenSRS)? The leaving registrar > > > confirmation is not a problem here, because they accept only > > > confirmation via fax and have already gotten (and accepted) it. > > > However, in the RWI it now sits there "Pending Owner Approval". Can I > > > let the owner send a fax to someone at Tucows for approval? > > > > > > > > > Kai > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany > > > Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com > > > IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org > > > > > > > > >
