Registrars serve no useful purpose

Steve Sobol sjsobol at JustThe.net
Sat Jan 22 21:28:05 UTC 2005


Joe Rhett wrote:

>>What if a company doesn't want to deal with
>>any registrar? What if they just want to
>>register their domain name and have it stay registered. 
> 
> I really can't think of any domain name registrant that this statement
> doesn't apply to -- even the spammers.
> 
> <shrug>  The purpose is so that someone can do all the "paperwork" for when
> that customer needs to change something ;-)

The alternative is dealing with VGRS directly, and with apologies to the 
Verisign employees here who I'm sure aren't directly responsible for some of 
the extremely net-unfriendly activities Verisign has perpetrated lately, I 
wouldn't want to deal with the company myself.

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