> I don't know of any registrar that does this. As stated the registrars > regard the reseller as their client, so the domain name belongs to the > person that pays them, the reseller.
You are mistaken here. The organization listed as the registrant has always been considered the "owner" before-ICANN and after. If you have a contract with your customer to list yourself as the domain registrant, then you could be legally considered the owner of the domain. > I was a reseller with Network Solutions before OpenSRS existed. Before ICANN existed and the policies and procedures were a lot different then. > And I had control over the domain name, since I was the one that received the > passwords, etc, after registering the domain with Network Solutions for my > clients. I was also set up as Tech Contact, which allowed me to change > nameservers, etc, which a Tucows reseller can not do. You didn't even need to be the "reseller" or the one who registered the domain. Policies and procedures were quite different under Netsol's pre-ICANN system. > But being first does not mean that you are always right. Loss of market > share should show you that you need to change some of your policies and > attitudes toward your resellers. Netsol has been losing market share and Tucows has been gaining. What do you know, Netsol is now talking about changing their policies... > Which is a shame, as I would have preferred staying with Tucows for all our > business had they been willing to allow the reseller more control over the > domains registered by the reseller with them. Once again, this is completely dependent on the agreement you have with your customer. Based on the comments I've read, some people choose to do business with unethical companies and they have every right to do so. However its my belief the going down that path will end up hurting them in the long run; therefore we choose to do business with ethical companies and our customers respect us because of that decision.
