Hello Paul,
Tuesday, September 05, 2000, 3:43:00 PM, you wrote:
> "William X. Walsh" wrote:
>>
>>
>> The issue appears to be that they list themselves as the admin
>> contact, a shady, and unethical practice, since the admin contact is
>> effectively the owner of the domain name. Then they ignore and do not
>> appear to pay attention to the emails to approve the transfers of the
>> domain name to a new registrar.
> That's patently ridiculous. The owner of a domain name is the owner of
> the domain name. The admin contact is the contact responsible for the
> admin. There are always cowboy outfits that provide poor service and I
> have had to deal with many domain sellers who do not respond to emails
> or phone calls and have to be persistently chased to perform tasks but
> that doesn't make the practice of performing admin services on behalf of
> a client a "shady and unethical practice". There are many domain sellers
> who provide an excellent service for their clients by taking full
> responsibility for all IT matters pertaining to the client, including
> all administration and payments.
Sorry, Paul, but there is simply no reason for the owner not to be
listed as the admin and every reason for them to be the admin contact.
The fact is, in reality and in common practice, for the admin contact
to be considered the owner of the domain name. And there is NO reason
for the ISP or person managing the domain to have to be the admin
contact, when they can be the technical contact. The billing contact
should be the person responsible for paying the domain fees.
> Not all resellers are out to screw domain owners. There are many, if not
> the majority, who are reputable companies with a long history of
> providing excellent support services for their clients who are being
> hampered from extending that service to domain name management because
> of the attitude that to do so is to "hijack" the domain. Our clients
It's a fact of life that this is the case these days. It has happened
enough, is so widespread an abuse, that there is no other way to paint
it except as unethical.
I have seen no compelling reasons for the owner of the domain name to
not be listed as the admin, or for the ISP or host to require being
the admin contact of the domain. With nothing substantive to benefit,
and everything to risk in the practice, there really is no other
conclusion to come to.
If anyone comes to me asking questions about their domain, and I see
the ISP or whatever, has not listed the registrant as the admin
contact, I tell them exactly what I said above about the practice, and
I stand by it.
-- Best regards, William mailto:william@userfriendly.com
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