At 7/15/03 2:40 PM, Bill Weinman wrote:
>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.
Right. You can certainly "own" the right to use a domain name, though,
and that right is transferable; people (including me) carelessly say "own
the domain" when they mean "own the right to use the domain for a year".
So no need to get hung up on "ownership"; if the word "ownership" appears
in the discussion, just substitute "right to use the domain".
For example, to restate my question more generically, can resellers add
contract provisions (to the satisfaction of OpenSRS compliance) allowing
them to take away the user's right to use the domain in the event of
nonpayment or fraud?
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
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