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I have a .PRO domain I'm transferring from EnCirca.com to Name.com. It is taking a full 6 days to do it. The WhoIs data is all correct - e-mail correct/contact info correct and I've responded to the acknowledgements and set up the auth information properly.
Yet name.com shows the domain is waiting for approval from the registrar. I don't know if it is Registry.pro that's holding-up the transfer (and thus a liability of the .PRO TLD itself) or the problem is with EnCirca. All I know is, when I transferred .COM, .NET, .INFO and .US domains from GoDaddy.com to Name.com, it completed much quicker. GoDaddy seemed to provide an additional interface or way for me to get them to approve the transfer immediately (or at least way quicker than the 5 day thing).
By the way, the reason I'm transferring that .PRO away from EnCirca is so that I can administer all the typical/expected industry-standard registrar-provided user-controllable services w/o having to rely on the registrar's online support system excessively.
I'm frustrated that after 6 years of keeping .PROs with EnCirca they have not finished properly implementing the common functions expected of a registrar when it comes to changing nameservers away from EnCirca and back, or between EnCirca accounts (such as when one EnCirca user sells or transfers domains to another EnCirca user).
In both those cases, there is stale data, or the user cannot administer DNS until one files a service report and jumps through hoops, which gets frustrating and tedious, fast. Especially when a lot of domains are involved. I can't believe EnCirca has not made that a high priority to fix by now. I don't know any major credible registrar that hasn't got that functionality all working.
Yet name.com shows the domain is waiting for approval from the registrar. I don't know if it is Registry.pro that's holding-up the transfer (and thus a liability of the .PRO TLD itself) or the problem is with EnCirca. All I know is, when I transferred .COM, .NET, .INFO and .US domains from GoDaddy.com to Name.com, it completed much quicker. GoDaddy seemed to provide an additional interface or way for me to get them to approve the transfer immediately (or at least way quicker than the 5 day thing).
By the way, the reason I'm transferring that .PRO away from EnCirca is so that I can administer all the typical/expected industry-standard registrar-provided user-controllable services w/o having to rely on the registrar's online support system excessively.
I'm frustrated that after 6 years of keeping .PROs with EnCirca they have not finished properly implementing the common functions expected of a registrar when it comes to changing nameservers away from EnCirca and back, or between EnCirca accounts (such as when one EnCirca user sells or transfers domains to another EnCirca user).
In both those cases, there is stale data, or the user cannot administer DNS until one files a service report and jumps through hoops, which gets frustrating and tedious, fast. Especially when a lot of domains are involved. I can't believe EnCirca has not made that a high priority to fix by now. I don't know any major credible registrar that hasn't got that functionality all working.
