RE: [ga] Domain Transfers

["John Berryhill" <john@johnberryhill.com>]

> Anyone who wants to change their Registrar should have to sign a document
> with detailed about, from and to information and this document should be
> notarized.

...and every registrar should speak every language so that they can read
notarial certificates from any country?

If the registrant is "Xiaolu Chin", what would you expect their name to look
like, let alone their signature, or the words on the notarial certificate?
How about "Abdullah Ajami" or "Vladislav Krietskova"?

In any event, of what use is a notarial certificate in any jurisdiction
outside of the one in which it was issued, unless the notarial certificate
is legalized by the relevant consulate?

Do you know what notaries in some countries cost?  Most people transfer
registrars to save money.  $35 per year for a domain name is *nothing* next
to notary fees in a lot of places.

Registrants are much more secure with something along the lines of a
password-protected web interface than knowing that any teenager with a
printer, a pen, and a seal from the stationary store can take any domain
name they want.

> Only the Technical or Administrative Contact should be allowed to
> instigate
> a change like this.

And just how do you propose that anyone OTHER thant the registrant is going
to be able to bind the registrant to the terms of the receiving registrar's
domain name registration contract.  That's like saying the only people who
can sell my house should be my accountant and my plumber.


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