On 4 Aug 98, Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> Agreed. I'm not sure what instinct led me to think that shutting off
> domains for lack of payment would lead to the InterNIC ending up in court.
> The examples you gave sure seem like they'd apply to any billable service,
> the NIC included. Then again, I know squat about law. ;) Maybe the service
> the NIC supplies falls into a different category than the phone company,
> power company, etc. ??? Got me.
Hmm... I do have vague recollections of loud screaming from some
prominent site owners a year or two back when Network Solutions (then
mired even more worse than today in a hopeless swamp of billing fiascos)
began threatening to yank service for non-payment on domains which
were very much paid up, thankee. Can't really recall the upshot of it all,
apart from yet more bad press for Internic and Network Solutions.
So I suppose there may be a bit of a kneejerk tendency to scream foul,
with suitable threats of legal ruination, whenever Internic sends out a
faulty demand for payment. But certainly a name owner has no more
"right" to ignore payment of a domain registration fee than he does of any
other bill. Whether Internic or any other body has a right, ethically or
however, to charge more than a token fee in the first place is another
issue, of course.
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