Re: protection from non paying clientel

From: Bill Weinman (billw@webmonster.net)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 17:40:04 EDT


At 01:47 PM 7/15/2003, Robert L Mathews wrote:
>Yes, I'd be interested to hear what the policy is on a reseller
>"repossessing" a domain name if the client has actually done a
>chargeback, for example, or if the registration is fraudulent.

IANAL, but I seem to remember the rational for this had something to do
with avoiding the legal definition of "chattel". You may have noticed that
the registrars never refer to a customer as buying a domain name. You
cannot own it. You may only "register" it.

For reasons that would require explanation by someone who, at the very
least, has played a lawyer on TV, that distinction is very important.

--Bill

->--
   Bill Weinman <http://bw.org/>
   Music <http://music.bw.org/>
   Whois Client <http://whois.bw.org/>
   Music Database <http://www.webmusicdb.com/>
                                               ->-+



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Tue Oct 19 2004 - 23:37:45 EDT