CIRA doesn't actually consider the Admin Contact to be the billing
contact.
CIRA considers the Admin contact to be the owner of the domain and the
only one they care about.
For historical reasons they allowed 'secondary contacts' which were called
Tech contacts. You can actually under the CIRA system add an unlimited
number of contacts. But since no registrar uses that system it would be
pointless.
I know that there is talk about reorganizing what information CIRA keeps
and doesn't keep (since 99% of the registrars dont ask you for your mobile
phone number or PGP key! Those are actual fields the registry will store
for you!)
Cheers,
Paul
On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Paul Chvostek wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 12:18:02PM -0600, Greg Makuch wrote:
> >
> > I think billing should stay in .ca
> >
> > many clients have different billing than other contact. we use it to do the CC
>process an would like to see it stay!!
> >
> > As said previous add a switch!
>
> A switch for what? Since CIRA doesn't record a separate billing contact,
> OpenSRS doesn't it either. OpenSRS is there to provide bulk registrar
> services, not to act as a customer contact database.
>
> I'm under the impression that OpenSRS doesn't rely on the contents of
> its own database for .ca registration management (else we wouldn't lose
> .ca management whenever CIRA hiccups).
>
> If it's your customer, you should have them in your database. If you
> don't want to store your own billing contacts, then simply follow CIRA's
> example, and consider the admin contact to be the billing contact.
>
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