[thelist] Hosting and DNS Registrations

Vic Wooten vicwooten at eaglewebservices.com
Fri Feb 22 05:44:01 CST 2002


Jake,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jake Aust" <mail_lists at jakesdiner.com>
To: "thelist lists.evolt.org" <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2002 7:22 PM
Subject: [thelist] Hosting and DNS Registrations


> My question is in how to deal with new
> Domain Name registrations. What is the best way for us to handle this? Is
it
> advisable for us to register Domains for our clients and then bill it back
> to them? What about when we are no longer hosting them someday...we would
> rather not be the billing contact for our client's domain. What are the
> legal issues involved with this?
>
> Obviously, we would like to handle as much as possible for our clients
> without them getting cryptic emails from Network Solutions, but we want
> there to be no question that the Domain is registered to and being paid
for
> by the client.

I handle domain registration for all my hosted clients as a convenience for
them. It's really quite simple. When you register the domain, you pick the
three contacts as so...

Administrative Contact: Yourself
Technical Contact: Usually the registrar
Billing Contact: Your client

The Administrative Contact can always make necessary changes such
as...Client changes address, or decides to move hosting (without having to
have anyone else involved in the rigamarole!), in which case the admin can
change admin to the client. Of course that is not going to happen, because
you are going to give them excellent hosting of course!

The Technical Contact "can" make these changes also, on behalf of the domain
owner.

The Billing Contact is unquestionably the domain owner if set up as so, and
never has to deal with any of the rigamarole. In the event that there is
some dispute, the Billing Contact can assume some control.

Assuming the prospective domain owner has given you the authority to act on
his/her behalf, there are no legal issues. The Billing Contact/domain owner
has agreed to purchase a domain. He/she is responsible for paying the
registrar.

> Is there a particular registrar that makes it easy for companies like ours
> to register domains as the agent for our client?

I prefer Register.com myself, simply because you can administer your domains
online through their control panel, as opposed to having to go through all
the BS with cryptic emails (as you call them!) from Netsol.

There are of course, less expensive registrars, but I would avoid them like
the plague!

HTH,

Vic

> Jake Aust




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