Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred registrar?
by Spoygg on Thursday December 27, 2012 @04:30AM
(#4972869)
Ok, give an example of on actual contract terms that does not contain such part.
Re:Ask HN: What is your preferred registrar?
by dangrossman on Thursday December 27, 2012 @02:01PM
(#4974581)
There is no other registrar with terms like that. None, at least among the well-known ones. A code of ethics against deviant use of the internet is not a standard contract term. Only Gandi has it.
Here are several hundred examples for you: http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/regis...
If any content on your website (even if user-generated) violates their "code of ethics", Gandi can take your domain from you. There's pretty much no way to run any kind of forum, blog with comments, website with any adult content, or even a site which simply expresses opinions that are not legal in another country, without giving Gandi the contractual right to take your domain and kill your site whenever they want. And good luck explaining that your definition of "hacking" (i.e. Hacker News) is not the same as theirs.
That's bullshit.
...and that's just part of it.http://www.gandi.net/static/contracts/en/g2/pdf/MSA-1.3-EN.p...