Jay, Bill and all,
It appears that there is again some need to clarify terms with respect
to Registrar, Registry, and Registrant as they relate to property rights
and ownership.
So if I may be so bold I will offer the following understanding:
1.) The REGISTRY- Owns the database for those gTLD's that are contained
within that database(s).
2.) The REGISTRAR- Owns the data for a particular registered DN to
which that registrar registered for any particular Registrant as it
relates to the registrars hosting and name server information for
any gTLD to which that registrar has permissions with the REGISTRY(s)
by which to do registrations within any particular gTLD name space.
3.) REGISTRANT - Owns any an all information for any Domain to which
they have registered in any gTLD name space.
I hope this is somewhat helpful. In accordance to recent court decisions
this very short outline, stands in some disagreement with the ICANN's
Accreditation Policy.
Jay Fenello wrote:
> Et tu Bill :-)
>
> At 09:36 PM 3/28/99 , Bill Lovell wrote:
> >>> The idea that a particular registrar "owns" a particular gTLD is rather
> >>> bothersome. One should be able to register a XXX.yyy name with
> >>> a registrar of one's choice. It is of course the NSI claim to own
> >>> .com, etc., which started this whole silliness.
>
> [IANAL -- I am not a lawyer]
>
> I am reluctant to describe legal concepts to
> a legal scholar, but maybe you can keep me on
> track.
>
> As I understand it, whenever someone has rights
> to something, they have property rights. This
> is not necessarily synonymous with "ownership."
> It can be a lease, license, delegation, etc.
>
> Now, if a "registry" (I assume that was what
> you meant) has the rights/obligations to edit
> a gTLD zone file, then by definition, they have
> some form of property rights in that zone file.
>
> If that is correct, then we probably just disagree
> as to the extent of those property rights.
>
> Now, before we begin a debate over exactly what
> those property rights are, please realize that
> the problem is recursive. The Root zone relates
> to a gTLD zone the same way a gTLD zone relates
> to an SLD zone, etc., ad infinitum.
>
> So, before you claim that Iperdome has *no*
> property rights in .per(sm), please explain
> why the same arguments wouldn't apply to the
> AOL.com zone file, or the ibm.co.au zone
> file.
>
> Respectfully,
>
> Jay Fenello
> President, Iperdome, Inc.
> 404-943-0524 http://www.iperdome.com
>
> P.S. ICANN appears to agree with you. They
> claim ownership over *all* names in the legacy
> name space.
Regards,
--
Jeffrey A. Williams
CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java/CORBA Development Eng.
Information Network Eng. Group. INEG. INC.
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