Re: Not HTML

I agree with Tamara.  To offer domain management as a paid service
is always an option, but it's ridiculous to assume the mantle of
admin contact without being prepared to bill for what can easily
become substantial hours.  There is a theory out there that we
should do this as a normal part of our service because we are more
familiar with the territory than the average client, but I have
found that most clients find the expense to be a bit much when the
management hits a famous NetSol bureaucratic snag.

Personally, I would prefer not to deal with it.  We only offer
tech services, though, and you may not have a choice of you also
handle project management.  For my company, the policy is that we
will handle the registration process, but all contact points
except tech are the client's.

Of course, the other question that arises is what happens if the
client decides to take their business elsewhere?  They are
entitled to do so, and it just causes additonal work for you and
them if the admin contact needs changing at that time.  Having the
domain in their name not only provides them with freedom of
choice, but may protect the webmaster from assuming the
responsibility of making that choice happen.

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tamara Abbey" <tamara(at)abbeyink.com>

At 09:11 PM 3/5/01 -0500, Debra Sawyers wrote:
>If you intend to act as the webmaster, you should list yourself
as the
>administrative contact, your friend as the owner/billing contact,
and your
>hosting service as the technical contact.  Your hosting company
will provide
>the DNS server names and addresses you'll need for the forms.

As someone who just went through the nightmare of transferring a
web site
from an out-of-business *host* to a new host, I'm going to take
issue with
the part about listing yourself as the administrative contact.
According to
the procedure I went through, the admin /is/ the owner of the
site. It took
about 4 days to handle the transfer of the domain /back/ to the
owner. I
have yet to be concerned about re-newing a domain, and perhaps
I'll come to
regret my decision, but I believe the site owner should be the
administrative contact since that is the person/group that has
first crack
at changes, modifications, renewals, etc.

FWIW,
<Tamaraa />

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