it depends on your registrar. gandi explicity states that the registrant is the owner. netsol on the other hand says that you are just renting the name from them and they or who know who? owns it. there are various shades in between, some registrars say nothing. but gandi has the best TOS by far for com net and org AFAIK. george http://cyklotron.com/ cyklotron: a gringo in medellin, colombia PGP Key: http://www.cyklotron.com/about/pgpPublicKey > From: "Nicole Parrot" <nicole at parrot.ca> > As opposed to what? You mean I am not the owner of my domain name? > I'm sorry, I'm jumping into this a bit late...