At 09:13 PM 3/28/99 +0000, you wrote:
>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).
>
Well, we part company pretty fast. A registry is a computer full of data.
The data gets there when registrars register domain names for
registrants. Who OWNS the data in the registry is an entirely different
question; NSI evidently likes to think that it owns all of the data in the
InterNic registry, and precisely that, I believe, is the question -- or one
of them.
>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.
This whole "ownership" approach to what is a FUNCTIONAL distinction
sucks air or worse, I should say.
Bill Lovell
