The insurer-broker-client relationship sounds somewhat like a reseller
arrangement to me.

registrar-reseller-client.

The client is insured through the insurer, but goes through the broker for
all interactions.

Just as a registrant goes to a resellers site, places an order, and can
manage their domain through an interface on the professional reseller site,
renew, get support etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: magic2147§optushome.com.au [mailto:magic2147§optushome.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 7:32 PM
To: dns§lists.auda.org.au
Subject: [DNS] The keys to heaven are not given to fools


On 23 Sep 2003 at 9:14, Rod Walloper Discount Domain Name Services wrote:



> I would have thought that it was just like the relationship between an
> insurance broker
> and the insured where (broadly speaking) the broker acts and is treated
> as
> though
> they were the insured.
>
> That is a load of crap if the broker acts for the insured..theinsured is
> allways listed on the insurance documents as the insured what a stupid
> comparision.
> rk

Dear Rodney

Whilst it is true that the insured is shown on the policy document,  the
insurer in most
events will communicate with the broker and not directly with the insured.
So the
analogy is sound.

I would have thought you would have been sympathetic to the principle of
agency in
regard to domain names. I seem to remember that you seemed to assume that
you
were effectively the agent for the registrants of some 1600 domain names in
that
"little incident" a while back.

Still got that quote from Tamara on the site I see. She tells me she is sick
of flogging
a dead horse especially as she no longer works for you. Did you pay her for
the
"endorsement"?  Or the right to use her name? Did you?


cb