@Crysis,
Since it has been established many times, that escrow services will not protect a buyer and a seller from theft. We should all do our due diligent when it comes to high cost transactions. Because you are paying for escrow for basically nothing.
They take their fees, they don't indulge in any information (as posted many times) so why pay more when it is not safe? Why not request information yourself, request a webcam chat, some picture ids, and do your own diligent? Why pay through a third party, if they do not tell you who cashed the check? or what bank account it went to?
If you do it yourself, as a buyer, you will know who cashed your check, and which bank it went to. Easier and doesn't cost you much in terms of money. As a seller, assuming you take the time to call, look up address, and have a face to face (webcam conversation) you will know more too. Ofcourse I am not saying it is 100% safe, but it will be safer if you can do it. And as a
seller, you have a contract buy and sell, so if they don't pay, you can send that contract to the registry to get the domain back. So do it yourself in this case, 1)A buy and sell contract to protect from seller (assuming the registry helps or get a lawyer), 2) Look up address, phone and face to face chat via videos help protects from fraud. As a
buyer, you know who cashed your check, and where it went or sent to at least without begging an escrow service to tell you (and they don't tell you). In all cases as buyer or seller, you have
more information, more control, and more "rights" should something goes wrong. In escrow cases, you don't have anything and have to pay a fee on top of that.
If anyone else can listed something else I missed please add. At the moment, I don't see any escrow being helpful at all when using their services.