[ga] New thread - had any problems moving a domain lately?
So have anyone else out there had any problems
moving a domain lately from one registrar to another? Are you aware that there
are time constraints for the successful movement of a domain from one
registrant to another. And has any one noticed the concept that domains are
locked for a period of 60 days prior to their expiry. That's right - you cannot
move your domain if its closer than 60 days to the expiry which means that YOU
MUST ABANDON 1/6 of your hosting fee as some tribute to the "losing
registrar"... in order to move the domain from one provider to
another.
It just makes one want to ask - Who's brilliant
idea was this and why?
Hell I own my IP, that is the IP of the domain name
and the purpose of making it web avaialable is merely the publication and public
use of the marque. There is no conveyance of the marque to the Registrar. It is
not a joint ownership between me and the Registrar, it is mine and the registrar
is acting as the publications agent in this mode.
The problem is that according to the rule, the
registrar can neither interfere or mandate a penalty to move this domain to
another registrar. Its also key to note that no one should be forced to
abandon any portion of the services that they have rightly paid for in order to
move their domains.
Likewise there are any member of domains that seem
to have blocks preventing their transfer but that should have been cleansed from
the whois database some months ago. I myself have several domains I chose to let
go inactive on the web, but the markques were still used in print.
Unfortunately this likely means that the Whois
process is also broken since it constrains the aggregation of domains into like
registrants and we also know that this is not always the case, especially in
management service environments.
In any event these are clearly things that need to
be changed and post haste.
Todd Glassey
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