“Note that .my DOMAIN REGISTRY stipulates the need for Administrative Contact, Billing Contact and Technical Contact. For details on job responsiblity, go to the .my DOMAIN REGISTRY FAQ. However, in the case of personal domain name, the Registrant is the same as the Administrative Contact.”
I couldn’t find the job responsibility page. Anyway, to summarize
Admin Contact: Person who manage the name. This person is appointed by the owner of the domain name. In a way, this person take care of the ownership but do not own the domain name. Registrant owns the name.
Technical Contact: Person who manage the DNS servers associated with the domain name. This person should have control over the DNS servers and able to do changes to the pointing (editing the zonefile) on request.
Billing Contact: Responsible to bill and collect payment from the Registrant, or the owner of the domain name. Billing contact should remind registrant to renew a name.
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I talked to MyNIC today. We discussed about the fact that most Admin Contact, as well as Billing and Technical Contacts do not really understand their scope of work.
Admin Contact for .com..my must be the employee of the Registrant. In most of the cases, the Admin Contact listed do not have control over the ownership. In short, the appointed Admin Contact has no ideas of how to safe guard the domain name.
For more domain name job responsibility discussion, please email pin@1.com.my
Useful information on domain administration.
You are right. some of the smaller domain provider actually register the .my domain name for their client using their company name and all the contact details of this domain are their details.
Legally, they own the domain name. When client wish to transfer away, they might play some trick to sell this domain at higher price.
We do encounter quite a number of this kind of cases when handling client enquiry to transfer their domain and hosting to Exabytes.