ICANN sets new policy for domain transfers

[aww]

The policy will be in effect starting November 12th, 2004.
http://www.icann.org/transfers/index.html

http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-12jul04.htm

July 12, 2004: ICANN is pleased to announce the adoption of The Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy. The new transfer policy will provide for a smooth transition of a domain name from one registrar to another when such a change is requested by the domain name holder. As a result this new policy will:

* Provide benefit to registrants in that they can more freely move their domain name from one registrar to another if they so desire, and further

* Encourage competition in the DNS among registrars.

 

[Ron Jackson]

Man, tallk about LONG OVERDUE! That is great news! Some of these new registrars that have entered the industry have been getting away with murder.

 

[Acroplex]

Yeah that's good news. In fact they should increase the fees that registrars pay so that the small and useless ones would be forced out of the market.

 

[bensontwenty]

Couldn't agree more - this is way overdue IMO

 

[Grrilla]

Yay! The seemingly arbitrary, (and unadvertised), "holding period", has, at times, been a real PITA.

 

[eSology]

The new transfer policy will provide for a smooth transition of a domain name from one registrar to another when such a change is requested by the domain name holder.

There is the catch. Some places don't give the domain owner full access to their domains; therefore, the problem may continue because the term "holder" will probably be abused.

Overall I think it is a step in the right direction though.

 

[Raf]

Awesome news, thats great to hear I guess.

 

[svede]

sweet...so no more cost for transfers??

 

[Dave_Z]

Chances are there'll still be costs for transfers. After all,
registrars pay the registry for every transfer that takes
place.

One step at a time. But yeah, it's good news after a
loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

I reported this, actually, under here:

http://namepros.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=38933

But good you posted, anyway.

Something about it bothers me, though. I just got this:
http://www.dnjournal.com/editorial.htm (I think it's
already reported here somewhere).

The part that bugs me is this line:

"Among other things, these would require accredited
registrars to use one standard form for transfers, have
English language sites, provide auth codes within 5 days
of request and would make transfer approval the default
in case a registrar fails to respond."

I wonder....

 

[kash88888]

I would need to see this to assess the benefits.

Right now GD allows me to transfer any domain name, with one year of registeration fro about 8 bucks!!!

 

[RareIQ]

:bingo:

 

[take5k]

:kickass:

Yes, it is a great news...

How about disable the rights of registrar holding the domain name for a long period of time after the domain has expire?

Does anybody including ICANN concern about this?

 

[Dave_Z]

Originally posted by take5k
:kickass:

Yes, it is a great news...

How about disable the rights of registrar holding the domain name for a long period of time after the domain has expire?

Does anybody including ICANN concern about this?

Not sure but registrars supposedly take between 1 to 45
days to "keep" domains 'til they delete it from their
database. I'll see if it's in ICANN's mandate about this
part.

Theoretically domain registrars "own" the domain once it's
expired and continually pay the registry for upkeep. But yeah,
they shouldn't hold on to it to be fair to the RAW (ready, able,
and willing) customer.

BRB!

 

[JMJ]

I honestly don't see where this helps anyone. The way I read it is all the registrars have to do is post their impossible procedures somewhere on their site.

I'm currently jumping through hoops with TotalNic now and even with the above implementation they still can make me jump through their hoops. I have to first pay their ransom fee since they decided not to respond to my emails until after the 30 days before expiration. Then I have to journey out and pay to have a piece of paper notarized (I would have had to do this even before the 30 days I now find out) only to figure out how much it will cost (pay that) and send the notarized paper to another country when TotalNic is supposedly based in Colorado..

I'm almost better off letting it expire and try my luck and catching it when it drops. Atleast I would get some pleasure out of that.

Anyone else see it differently?

 

[armstrong]

Originally posted by davezan
Something about it bothers me, though. I just got this:
http://www.dnjournal.com/editorial.htm (I think it's
already reported here somewhere).

The part that bugs me is this line:

"Among other things, these would require accredited
registrars to use one standard form for transfers, have
English language sites, provide auth codes within 5 days
of request and would make transfer approval the default
in case a registrar fails to respond."

I wonder....

Yes, there's a trap in there somewhere. What happens if someone attempts to hijack your domain by issuing a transfer request, and your registrar doesn't notify you or respond to the request? Since approval is the default then your domain gets transferred anyway.

 

[Dave_Z]

Something else interests me about ICANN's new
transfer policies: using one uniform version of
transferring.

Will VeriSign be forced to adopt the auth code
measures for .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ, & .US since they
currently hold the registry for .COM. & .NET?

This oughta be interesting. I won't be surprised
if they'll fight tooth and nail about this.

 

[Wesley]

Ah, finally! So, if someone buys a domain from GoDaddy, and I buy it from them, there is no cost to send it to NameCheap anymore? Ahhh, praise the lord!

 

[Stephen]

I am pretty sure you will have to pay the transfer fee, if you change registrars for a domain, Wesley.

 

[aww]

This is an important reminder to ALL domain holders:

.COM .NET and .CC can now be instantly transfered out of your account without warning if you do not have them registrar-locked.

TLDs with EPP keys like .ORG .INFO and .US are not affected.

You can thank verisign/netsol for the mess of stolen domains you are going to see over the next few months (because they never implimented EPP in their registry). Don't become one of the victims, doublecheck your portfolio now.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Yeah that's good news. In fact they should increase the fees that registrars pay so that the small and useless ones would be forced out of the market.

Actually, they just did with tehir new budget.
http://www.icann.org/financials/budget-fy04-05-06oct04.html

Although, in another way, by making part of the fee the $.25 per domain fee instead of a fixed fee, it does actually make it easier to start a new registrar. However the new $.25 ICANN fee was actually $.05 last year per domain.