Originally Posted by polish_aristocrat

let's say you want to lease a domain name from someone for a few $k's per month. But that person lives in another country and doesn't seem really trustwothy, you dont know him at all.

How would you proceed with it?

Is there a way to use Escrow for this? I doubt... :/

but its obvious that I wouldn't wire $5k to someone in advance, especially since he isnt desperate to lease that domain at all, I am the one who wants a deal, but still I am not that stupid to send $5k in advance and hope he lets me to do with his domain what I want for the next 30 days....

neither he would accept a payment after the month is gone.