I'm looking for registrars where the Agreement clearly
says the registrant is the owner of the domain name (with dues
paid).

Network solutions was said to offer a service to registrants and
it seems the same with Godaddy, enom, tucows.

Gandi.net is one I found off the net. Any problems with them?

Btw, does anyone know what happened to www.domainnamebuyersguide.com? It no longer rates the registrars according to legal requirement, pricing, features, services.

I thought that you never "actually" own a name, you just sort of lease it ( for 100's of years) from registrars?

Angel, you don't just sort of lease it from registrars. That's blindly done. Do you consider yourself or the registrar the domain name owner when you register a domain name? What exactly do you get by paying them? If you're not considered the domain name owner, who really is?

I think there's a place for a new entrant where registrants are explicitly the domain name owners, not the registrar.

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Angel78 wrote:
I thought that you never "actually" own a name, you just sort of lease it ( for 100's of years) from registrars?

Domains are leased for the period of the registration. Let a name expire, and you lost it.

Originally posted by timechange
Domains are leased for the period of the registration. Let a name expire, and you lost it.

That's what I have read or heard somewhere, was it a SnapName email..not sure...

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