Unfortunately, the admin contact has more powers than the
owner when it comes to managing the domain, as William as
already made clear.
In case of dispute between owner and admin contact, the
owner must provide documents to prove they own the domain
name.
The admin contact does not have to do anything, as control
by the admin contact is built into the system.
Therefore, as far as we are concerned, the owners should
always be the admin contact.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org
[mailto:owner-discuss-list@opensrs.org]On Behalf Of William
X. Walsh
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 8:45 PM
To: Paul Richards
Cc: ecs; discuss-list@opensrs.org
Subject: Re[2]: What to do against a Registrar who abuses
his position?
Hello Paul,
Tuesday, September 05, 2000, 6:42:53 PM, you wrote:
> There is nothing unethical about any of this, it's a
perfectly
> reasonable support arrangement.
And this is where we disagree. The admin contact should be
the domain
registrant. The potential for abuse is too high otherwise,
and the
only way to straighten out anything abusive done would
require what
could be prohibitively expensive legal action.
For all intents and purposes the admin contact has full
ownership of
the domain name, even if it is not legal ownership. They
have all of
the powers as if they were the owners, including the
physical ability
to transfer it a third party without the knowledge or
consent of the
domain registrant.
-- Best regards, William mailto:william@userfriendly.com
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