On Wed, 10 May 2000, Dean Pemberton wrote:
I'd be interested to know what being the `registrar' of a domain means. If it's just a title then cool. But Katipo Communication should be recieving no correspondence about my domain, nor should they have any control over it.
If Katipo are the "registrar" for your domain, then they have the ability to change entries relating to your domain without your knowledge. They will also get notifications by e-mail when you make changes to your records, I think (although I could be wrong about that). The idea seems to be that Katpio should be prevented from making unauthorised changes by the agreement they sign with Domainz, which restricts their activities to the straight-and-narrow. But since no "registrar" has actually signed an agreement with Domainz to date, that's kind of acadamic, isn't it? It was suggested early in the testing of this new system that, at transition, every nameholder should be tagged with "registrar: domainz". Individual nameholders could then change registrars according to who they _wanted_ do do business with. They would also be given the opportunity to end the contract with the Domainz "registrar", and begin a new one with the new "registrar", and everything would be clear-cut and obvious. However, Domainz have obviously decided that it's more convenient to arbitrarily assign nameholders to "registrar"s without their permission. [I use the word "registrar" here in the sense of "Domainz billing agent" as opposed to any more conventional ICANN definition] As I mentioned yesterday, the operational procedure for correcting these mistakes is to send instructions to change the vandalised records to 4service(a)domainz.net.nz. I did this yesterday, and they allowed me to make my changes without the inconvenience of a written request, or a domain key. Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog