You can if the Registrar allows it. But OpenSRS had made it clear that they do not allow this. The best they will do is suspend the domain so no one can use it.
Research the archives, there have been many lively debates on this subject. If you wish to sell domain names as a reseller for OpenSRS, then just accept the fact that you will occasionally lose money due to a chargeback or bad credit card. ----- Original Message ----- From: "myOstrich Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:43 PM Subject: RE: What to do if credit card fails - domain already registered... > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > > > > I have not seen this situation. > > > > > > > > Chargebacks due to fraud but not a recall of an approval. > > > > > > This poses the same problem though - you presumably registered the > > > domain and then the chargeback occurred. How do you hand this? You > > > certainly don't want the perpetrator of the fraud to keep > > the domain > > > name. > > > > Either way, how would you handle it in the real world, i.e. > > someone purchases something from your retail store with a > > credit card and then later charges back on you. What do you do? > > > > Welcome to the real world of accepting credit cards as a > > merchant. The merchant, no matter what the field, always > > takes a risk when accepting credit cards. It's a cost of > > doing business. > > So you are telling me that you just eat these charges, and the person > with the fraudulent credit card gets a free domains name? > > It seems to me that in this electronic transaction you should be able to > recover the "goods" and at least take ownership of the domain. There is > no physical transaction after all. It's not like you have to reposes > their refrigerator. > > -t >
