RE: [registrars] The Iron Fist of Iron Mountain;-(

["Rob Hall" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder what would happen if you filled it all in properly in crayon, and send it back to them.  It is a legal document, no matter how messy.

 

ICANN might have problems saying you were not meeting your obligations when their chosen provider is the one  holding things up because they don't like your writing skills.

 

Hmmmm.

 

<grin>

 

Rob.

 

From: owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-registrars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nicrelations@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 5:02 AM
To: Registrars Constituency and observers
Subject: RE: [registrars] The Iron Fist of Iron Mountain;-(

 

Having being dealing with all sorts of Registries around the world, I can tell you IM´s contract isn´t really that odd... and most of them actually have more or less the same amount of space to write your company name (and you can imagine that "Ascio Technologies inc. - Denmark" is not really the easiest name to squeeze in there either ;)).

 

Since our company purchased a license for Adobe Acrobat Professional (ironically, we mostly use it to make our pdf forms easy to fill in for our customers ;)), I solved the problem by using "brute force" and modifying the text in the pdf directly: this way I don´t have to write by hand (it´s amazing how years of computer usage have made handwriting so painful) and the contract looks nicer and more readable.

 

Ehi... Maybe I can start a business reselling fillable contracts to my fellow registrars ;)

 

For those of you who don´t see a reason for giving 449 bucks to Adobe just to fill in tiny spaces in pdf contracts, you can either use an online converter like http://www.zamzar.com (quality of the results vary), or if you are linux enthusiasts like me you can simply go for PDFEdit (which is actually easier to use than Acrobat Pro :)). I found a nice tutorial for Ubuntu here http://howtoforge.com/editing_pdf_files_pdfedit_ubuntu_feisty

 

Hope this helps :)

 

BR

Francesco Cetraro

Ascio