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.
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
At 04:20 PM 10/7/98 -0400, John Golovich wrote:
What would you do in this case?
1) transfer the domain without comment 2) tell the accounting firm that they just overdrafted at the favor bank. richard -- Richard Welty NeWorks Networking, Inc. 518-244-9675 rwelty@neworks.net http://www.neworks.net/
At 1:44 PM -0700 10/7/98, Richard Welty wrote:
At 04:20 PM 10/7/98 -0400, John Golovich wrote:
What would you do in this case?
1) transfer the domain without comment
2) tell the accounting firm that they just overdrafted at the favor bank.
richard
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) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ life is a constant stream of people coming into and out of your life... sometimes you get to grab hold of one or two of them for a while... ima@badhabit.org http://www.ircd.com/meldatlist.html PGP Fingerprint: 5E9F 31EF DF11 A3EF F3E4 CB3C 9F42 2EC8 BCD0 C607 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
At 04:20 PM 10/7/98 -0400, John Golovich wrote:
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.
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. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ I bet the human brain is a kludge. -- Marvin Minsky
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