Is this legal? Ethical?

[domainSPOTLIGHT]

Someone has a name I want registered.

I am unable to reach them by phone/mail/email.

I noticed the domain is not locked.

Is it legal to initiate a transfer to my registrar without ever speaking to the current domain owner? With that new rule stating that if a transfer request is not responded to, the transfer will happen (if the domain is not locked)

How long does the person have to respond to a transfer request?

Your thoughts?

 

[slaughterbeck]

I would appreciate it if you did not refer to me as being dishonest.

Its not something that I would support. However, I still think it was a good question to ask. Please respect my opinion.

I agree, it is a terrific question to open up this type of discussion for all of the susceptible people in the world. My husband, Peter, often refers to me as the most gullible person he’s ever met and while it angers me fiercely at times I do recognize he has a very good point. I’m not going to let him to know this but after seeing this post I discovered I had three domains unlocked at Namecheap (I registered these in the first three months that I had been domaining, back when I was even greener than I currently am, a very scary thought indeed). To top things off I had just received an offer of $400.00 for one of the names just 3 days ago.

It would have been easy for the prospective buyer to attempt something similar as to what domainSPOTLIGHT alluded to and I might not have noticed, allowing them to transfer my domain without paying a dime (who knows the difficulties I may have encountered trying to get my domain back?) if not for this post.

I do admit these questions made me frightened an were the reason I checked all of my domains, I guess my husbands right and I truly am that naïve.

 

[Michelle]

I checked mine and found one unlocked today :tri:

Not now

 

[ThreeD]

How would anyone on this forum feel if the situation was reversed and it was their domain being Stolen.

I would be pissed and go crazy on my registrar" But to save them from trouble and myself I lock all my domains..saves us all a lot of trouble

 

[TopSatelliteRadio.co]

I would have to bust out my database back up and start over.

 

[SimpleDomaining]

what a question )))), laughing hard. it was sound to me like this:
if i walk near somebody's house, and it is open, and i dont see the owner of house, can i enter and take his tv, for example, because i really like it?
IT IS STEALING!!!