> Registry <--> Registrar <--> Reseller/RSP <--> End User
Note that ICANN doesn't recognize the third party in this chain (Reseller/RSP). All they see is: Registry <--> Registrar <--> End User Charles Daminato TUCOWS Product Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Dave Warren wrote: > > > But the domain *HAS* been paid <snip> > > Someone has paid the registry, but no one has paid the registrar. > > The reseller paid the registrar. > > > As the > > contracts specifically contemplate that someone must pay the registrar > prior > > to registration (or provide a reasonable basis for believing that payment > > will be made), the only logical assumption at this point is that the > domain > > name hasn't been paid. > > I'm thinking of a bounced cheque, a chargeback, or similiar situation in > which case the domain was registered with a good faith belief that payment > had been received, but the client later reversed the payment. > > > Think of the other side of the "didn't pay, have to seize it" > > argument...registrant has paid, but reseller doesn't pay registrar or > > registrar charges back registry - who gets to seize what now? > > The registrar or the registry seizes the domain, and the end user sues the > reseller. > > Registry <--> Registrar <--> Reseller/RSP <--> End User > > Each party has obligations to pass payment to the left, and a domain to the > right. If the chain is broken at some point, the "buck" stops at the last > link which met it's obligations. > > Again, I realize that to some extent OpenSRS' hands are tied. However, I > still believe that the concept of a "reseller" needs to be addressed -- In > order to "resell" something, I must first own it, otherwise I'd be selling > something which I don't own... > > -- > `Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting > `Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! > Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! > Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! > Take thy beak from out my heart, and take tha form from off my door! > Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' > > >
