"William X. Walsh" wrote:
>
> Hello Doug,
>
> Sunday, June 17, 2001, 1:41:38 AM, Doug Sisk wrote:
>
> > This is just an asinine policy!
>
> > All it does is create work for the RSP. It obviously wasn't originally
> > intended to work that way - why would you even define an admin contact
> > in the api if you were never going to allow RSP's to set it.
>
> The admin contact can be whomever the owner chooses.
Yes, and the owner has given me that authority. Why does OpenSRS make
it difficult fot me to assert that authority?
> However, that person has the authority to completely change, transfer
> ownership, cause a deletion, etc.
Yes. The point ?
> The role of the admin contact is effectively as the owner of the
> domain name. This is a historical role.
Effective is not the same as "is".
> I've said for years that any ISP who registers names for clients and
> puts themselves down as Admin contact is at a very minimum committing
> a very questionable act, and at worst an unethical one, bordering on
> illegal when they use their position as admin contact to prevent the
> registrant from making a change that they seek to the domain (Such as
> switching providers, changing the contacts, changing the nameservers).
Tucows should have a zero tolerence policy on illegal activities. If a
reseller holds a domain hostage then boot the reseller.
> If I had a $1 for every domain I've seen held hostage by an
> unscrupulous ISP or webhost who made themselves the admin contact for
> customer domains, either because they believed they had the right to
> because the customer owed them money (which they don't have the right
> to do), or for some other imagined reason.....
So it's ok for NSI, and Tucows to hold the domain hostage if it's not
renewed on time?
> I really see no reason why the registrant should not be listed as the
> admin contact 100% of the time. For their own protection. Managing a
> domain name, especially an OpenSRS registered domain, is simple
> enough.
It may be simple enough for you and me, but my clients barely know what
a computer is. They want a one stop shop. Trying to explain how
everything works to them is like explaining Calculus to my 5 year old.
Regards,
Doug
> On that note, one thing I've been thinking about is adding context
> sensitive help links to the various portions of the same OpenSRS
> client interface. (You know, the little "?" links that pop-up a help
> window)
>
> Anyone interested in helping to come up with the text for the various
> sections?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> William X Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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