At 7/15/03 4:52 PM, Dave Warren wrote: >To take away those rights, or to transfer those rights to another party?
Well, the contract provision I was suggesting would say something like "in the event of nonpayment, chargeback, or fraudulent payment, you will lose all rights to the domain name and [reseller name] will become the domain's legal registrant". The reseller would then theoretically have the right to transfer it like any other registrant (although it's not likely to do them any good, of course). I realize you're asking this because many people are uncomfortable with the idea that the reseller gets "ownership" of the domain, and practically speaking, it would probably be equally effective if there was some Tucows-sanctioned way for the reseller to permanently disable a domain name and prevent the registrant from ever using it, without taking "ownership" of it. (The point is to deprive the deadbeat/criminal of it so that they don't bother trying to rip you off again, not for the reseller to accumulate useless domains.) However, I'm guessing that Tucows would probably not want to become involved in a system where they're enforcing the punishment -- the more that this is the reseller's problem/liability, the better for Tucows, I'd think. -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
