discuss "Premium" listed domain that was sold was difficult to transfer to new registrar

[xynames]

I sold one of my domains I have registered at DynaDot. Transaction conducted via escrow.com

When it came time to transfer, the buyer's recipient registrar 123-reg told her that it could not accept/receive the transfer via authorization code, even though the domain was UNlocked at my end, because it was a "premium listed" domain.

Eventually buyer had to create a DynaDot account and I pushed it over to her with no problem, DynaDot to DynaDot.

Later she contacted me and said that there was still some issue at her end, even though WhoIs now showed her as owning the domain, because it was still listed for sale as a "premium listed" domain - she said that it still showed as listed for sale at at least:

123-reg.co.uk
Godaddy.com
Sedo.com
Afternic.com

This is true - the domain was still listed for sale at Sedo and Afternic (GoDaddy and 123-reg.co.uk must be affiliates of the other two, at least, we know for certain that GoDaddy owns Afternic), but I had not yet gotten around to removing the Sedo/Afternic listings since I had not yet received the funds since the escrow had not yet closed (still hasn't closed, but is in inspection period now).

I can understand I suppose buyer's wanting to have any for sale listings removed once she controls the domain, but WHY would the domain's being listed for sale affect the domain transfer via authorization code?

Something like this happened before now I recall, where I ended up having to push the domain over same way, DynaDot to DynaDot.

(By the way, this was not a domain that had a BIN price at Afternic - so it was not a "Fast Transfer" at DynaDot listed domain.)

Anyone else encountered anything like this? where the for sale listing status of a domain somehow affects its transfer via authorization code?

 

[bluemeteor]

No. Maybe it’s dynadot or 123-reg’s problem. Sounds more like the later one.

 

[anantj]

What's the TLD (Since you mentioned Fast Transfer, is it safe to assume it is one of the older GTLDs?)
The problem likely is at 123-reg. Perhaps they had cached whois which still showed the domain epp status as locked. Did the buyer try at any other registrar where it failed like it did at 123-reg?

 

[Name Trader]

Do you have accounts at any/all of these places for sale? Could you login to see if it is still listed by you? If yes, maybe you can delete it. If yes, but not listed by you. Maybe you could send whoever your logged into a message to say you used to own the domain, but it's now sold and transferred. And could they please delete the sales listing. If they need evidence, ask them to check the whois, which has changed.

 

[wwwweb]

Never seen this, those sale conditions, should not override a manual transfer, really weird.

As stated above, just delete all listing, some
may take 24 hours to delist, but at least you can free these locks.

 

[xynames]

I do not have any account at 123-reg, no.

The domain sold was a .com

Escrow will now close automatically after the inspection period. What was slowing down escrow.com was that there was a buyer's broker involved, but still that had nothing to do with this issue with 123-reg saying that the domain could not transfer from DynaDot to it. I received a direct email from the buyer herself after I had pushed the domain over to wherever the broker had told me to push it, within DynaDot, where she acknowledged that she now had the domain, and clarified what had supposedly been the issue, and asked me to remove the for sale listings anyway, even after the push.

I have had in the past times when registrars claim that my domain to be transferred is still locked, but this was a different (claimed) issue.

 

[BaileyUK]

don't know if it's of any help but indeed 123-reg do have a tie-up for showing premium listings for domains at Godaddy./ anafternic Quite often the premium listing at 123-reg only shows if the term (including extension) is entered in the search otherwise it will just show as taken.
123-reg do seem to have lots of problems but they do offer an online support (live discussion) system which normally is pretty responsive

 

[Name Trader]

I do not have any account at 123-reg, no..

So you could at least try to get the domain deleted from the other places using your account? The 123-reg listing is probably coming from the listing at Sedo, Afternic or GoDaddy anyway.

 

[Arca]

GoDaddy is the owner of 123 Reg (they bought them last year).

123 Reg is an Afternic Standard Network partner registrar.

 

[xynames]

Getting the for sale listings is not an issue but I wouldn’t want to delete them until escrow closed anyway and - why would/should for sale listings affect a domain transfer away order?