John M. Brown wrote:
My only problem with Pay Up Front is that some customers are going to be dead beat about paying us. I would want to make sure that
That's your problem. You choose your business model and I'll choose mine.
there was some recourse to collecting our money or having the domain placed on hold until fees are paid. The only way that I can see doing that now is to register the domain under our name and then transfer it later once we get paid. Way to much work.
You have a number of choices here: 1. Require your customers to pay up front, too. 2. Charge them extra for the pre-payment and transfer costs. 3. Register them as the billing contact for their own domain. We happen to do #3 because it keeps costs lowest, and fully establishes the concept that they own their own domain names, not us.
Another way is to take the abusers to court and nail them. Make the penalty to high and they will leave.
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