You are contracted by an accounting firm and as a favor to them
you provide email redirection, pop accounts, web redirection, and
web space to their clients at no charge.
Your company is the one who registers the domain name and pays
for it. In fact the domain name isnt in the name of the company,
but is in fact in the name of your company.
All of a sudden the individual stops dealing with the accounting
firm. Out of the blue, without any contact you receive a notice
showing domain modifications.
After perfoming 15 months of free service they dont even bother to
call to tell you they are transfering the domain name they paid for.
1. let the domains gowithout a fight
2. Invoice the Accounting firm (without hope of getting paid). Cite a
serious accounting oversite and offer a 6 month payment plan with no
interest.
3. Post your original email over your desk with theis Irish
proverb -" Once shame on you. Twice shame on me."
4. In the future whenever anyone wants a favor - see number 3.
From: john@ciag.net (John Golovich)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 16:20:15 -0400
Subject: Where do you stand?
What would you do in this case?
You are contracted by an accounting firm and as a favor to them
you provide email redirection, pop accounts, web redirection, and
web space to their clients at no charge.
Your company is the one who registers the domain name and pays
for it. In fact the domain name isnt in the name of the company,
but is in fact in the name of your company.
All of a sudden the individual stops dealing with the accounting
firm. Out of the blue, without any contact you receive a notice
showing domain modifications.
After perfoming 15 months of free service they dont even bother to
call to tell you they are transfering the domain name they paid for.
George J. Broadfoot III
Director of Operations
Laser Link Network Services, Inc.
610.566.2993 FAX 610.566.9093
i might tend to want to do this, but i also might have tended to try to set
up a bit more concrete agreement before expending so much.
half of me says take the domain back and send them a bill, the other half
says that they got away with freebies because you didn't set up a cost for
services rendered up front, and that it could have been a much more costly
lesson than it was, and don't do it again.
melinda (who has had to learn more than once not to trust so much)
The key is who paid for it? When MHSC registers a domain, for someone else,
we put it in *their* name in the first-place. But, we also only carry the
primaries until they can get their own set up. We will carry secondaries
for almost anyone.
The bottom-line is that they don't have to notify you other than as a
courtesy. That you were comping them other services is irrelevent. It
creates no compulsion/obligation on their part, towards you. Incentive,
maybe. But, not obligation. Yes, it is rude on their part. But, that's
about all.