Talk:Registered agent

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[edit] Topic: Unregistered user keeps vandalizing article, deleting article citations and inserting "National Corporate Research"

The article cites the below links as materially relevant references to the article. Are they SPAM? or are they references? (Ironically, I notice that the one page lists names "National Corporate Research").

The first link, ResidentAgentInfo.com is a resident agent informational site (not commercial except for support banner ads) that is registered to Terry Berger in Maryland. There are banner ads on this site for a couple of process servers, an attorney and a registered agent. The site was registered in March 2001 and looking at the Wayback Machine at http://web.archive.org/web/20031026134825/http://www.residentagentinfo.com/ it was apparently operating for years without ads. Advertisements to support bandwidth on a public information site are not uncommon. The types of ads on the site are not uncommon given the site informational content. The site is cited specifically as "Reference for section "How To Find Who is the Registered Agent for any Business Entity". Specifically, what states do not allow you to get agent information online and if there are any costs and idiosyncracies of different jurisdictions. The only other way to cite these would be to put links to all 51 Secretary of State statute sites or offices - and then you would have to go to each site to research which would be pretty retarded. To say that it is not a citation when it specifically states it is a citation - and for what section is also questionable (LOL).

e-SecretaryOfState.com is similar, but has links directly to the statutes in each state as well as email addresses for contacting said agencies. The information is not as specific, but is different, relevant and a much cleaner alternative than to put each of these hundreds of links in the article which would render it unreadable. I know that when I was writing parts of the article that I would use this site as a hub to get information from different states. WHOIS reveals that it is registered to incorp services, however their name only appears in a small link stating "brought to you as a free public service by incorp services, inc." with no logo. To say this is a SPAM or commercial site based on that would be stretching it. The site could be easily sited as a reference for the entire article by the statute links alone which would have taken me hours to find otherwise.

Resident Agent Listings.com - WHOIS: registered to Grant Interprises Inc. in Florida. It looks pretty purely informational to me and does not show preference for one registered agent over another. This is a reference for pricing since it lists prices of a bunch of disparate agents. The only ads are occasional google ads that are hard to even find. To say this is a commercial site and not informational is also a stretch of the imagination.

Nevada-Resident-Agents.com - WHOIS: registered to - Incorp Services, however there is not one single ad for Incorp on the site, so I would have to classify it as not commercial. It actually says "non-commercial site." It looks as though every single agent is on this page including all of the big four - it looks like 100 or something. If this is SPAM, it is very poorly done SPAM. It names every service company I am aware of.

Nevada Resident Agent Association - WHOIS: registered to Derek Rowley of the Nevada Resident Agent Association (big surprise there - lol). I used this as a reference for the FINCen section as well as the Model Registered Agents Act section. Again, it does not appear to favor any one agent company over another and there are 10's of them listed (I'm not going to count them).

So... what I see is a handful of sites I personally used all of in my research on the article. I was really expecting some sort of smoking gun with the whois after all the hype from the guy removing the links, but I'm really underwhelmed. Where's the SPAM? Dougieb 13:51, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

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