Who owns your domain? Plug for Gandi

Posted Feb 2, 2007 1:44 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (guest, #1954)
In reply to: Who owns your domain? Plug for Gandi by mikeraz
Parent article: Who owns your domain?

I don't get your point. These clauses, which are disclaimers of responsibility, illustrate the same attitude they all have: For what you pay us, you're not entitled to rely on us for anything.

It would surprise me if Godaddy doesn't have these same disclaimers in its contract.

I'd like to see a EULA that spells out one or two rights for the registree, for example, "Unless Client violates the rules above, Registrar will give 30 days notice before discontinuing the registration."

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Who owns your domain? Plug for Gandi

Posted Feb 2, 2007 2:58 UTC (Fri) by IkeTo (subscriber, #2122) [Link] (1 responses)

I think what he means is that Gandi essentially says "if the domain owner do something illegal, I won't care, the domain owners are the only one to face the jurisdiction". In other words, they will not entertain any request from any third party. That third party must contact the domain owner directly if he has a complain.

Who owns your domain? Plug for Gandi

Posted Feb 4, 2007 18:06 UTC (Sun) by giraffedata (guest, #1954) [Link]

I think what he means is that Gandi essentially says "if the domain owner do something illegal, I won't care, the domain owners are the only one to face the jurisdiction". In other words, they will not entertain any request from any third party. That third party must contact the domain owner directly if he has a complain.

I think so too, but if you read it carefully, that's not what Gandi says. Gandi says what they all say, including Godaddy: Gandi is not responsible to the customer for taking the blame if use of the domain harms someone. But Gandi is still free at its option to mess with the registration in order to prevent that harm, and this contract between Gandi and its customer definitely doesn't affect Gandi's responsibility to a third party for that harm.

Because this is standard one-sided CYA contract language, I don't think you can infer anything from it about Gandi's attitude toward requests like Myspace's.