Here is the relevant
text of the Dan own to lease program contractual terms. It also sets a penalty of needing to immediately pay the entire amount within the agreement, plus lose access to the domain. Note that black hat use, spam, malware, etc. are all specifically covered.
Despite the exhaustive wording, if I had (I don't) a domain name worth $100,000 or more I would probably be hesitant to go into a lease to own. But for the typical $1000 to $2500 names I have, with a STR of maybe 1 or 2%, I have zero concern about lease to own with these safeguards. Sure, still some chance domain name will be damaged, but the odds of my selling the domain name in the next 5 years are maybe 7%, and the value that represents at a net selling price would be .07*1800=$126. I am getting more than that in the first month of the payment plan.
the Transferee is banned from using the domain in case such use:
- is in breach of any applicable law, statute, regulation or law;
- is fraudulent, criminal or unlawful;
- promotes racism, bigotry, hatred or physical harm of any kind against any group or individual;
- infringes or breaches the (intellectual property) rights of any Third Party;
- contains video, audio photographs, or images of another person without his or her permission (or in the case of a minor, the minor's legal guardian’s permission);
- provides information on any illegal activity (including, but not limited to, instructional information on acquiring or fabricating illegal weapons or drugs, privacy violations or distributing computer viruses);
- publicizes or promotes commercial activities and/or sales without our prior written consent such as contests, sweepstakes, barter, advertising, and pyramid schemes
- involves the use, delivery or transmission of any viruses, unsolicited emails, trojan horses or any other computer programming routines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information.
7.4 Notwithstanding the above, Client acknowledges and agrees that any (other) prohibited activity as referred to in Clause 5 above, as well or any other activity which may cause damages to the Provider or the Third Party and/or which may decrease the value of the domain name are strictly prohibited. Such activities include (but are not limited to) the use of aggressive SEO strategies, techniques and tactics that focus only on search engines and not a human audience, and usually does not obey search engines guidelines (black hat SEO), such as keyword stuffing, invisible text, doorway pages, adding unrelated keywords to the page content or page swapping (changing the webpage entirely after it has been ranked by search engines), and the use of the domain name for spam activities.