GoDaddy transfer = 2 hours, Enom = 24-48 hours

[aww]

So why in 2008 with a mature domain name industry and near real-time registry updates does enom still take so long for transfer notices/approvals/followthrough?

Is it just me or is everyone else tired of this...


From what I can tell is part of the problem is how enom acquires remote whois information and relies on 3rd party websites? If it gets hung up it has to wait for manual human intervention. You'd think they would try to improve this.

 

[Name Trader]

Don't eNom process transfer applications in batch mode? That's every 12 or 24 hours, iirc.

 

[Dave_Z]

So why in 2008 with a mature domain name industry and near real-time registry updates does enom still take so long for transfer notices/approvals/followthrough?

Only eNom can answer that. But registrars aren't required to process transfers
within, say, 24 hours or less, and it's rather unrealistic to expect that on all of
them.

Additionally, only DNS updates are near real-time. Last I checked, contact bit
changes and un/locking are received by VeriSign every 12AM and 12PM.