On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Chris Jones wrote:

> I know this is off-topic, but I thought folks here might be able to
> help:
>
> I want to set up a domain for a friend who's not very technically
> literate.  In the past, I could have send a message to
> hostmaster@internic.net with her as the registrant and admin and
> billing contacts, and me as the technical contact.  Then she'd get
> billed and I could get the domain working.
>
> Is this still possible?  Or has our Internet "advanced" to a point
> where this isn't feasible anymore?  So far, all the registrants I've
> looked at ask me for a credit card number before they ask for anything
> important, like the nameservers or technical contact.
>

Not these days.  People suddenly discovered that hostmasters would
register a domain, not pay for it, run it until it expired, then
reregister it...keep doing that ad nauseum.

A friend of mine did that with his domain for 2 years.