Question!!! Does the 60 day no-transfer period concern only new domains???

[ugnali]

or lets say you bought a domain from somebody and they transfered it to your registrar and you changed the registration to yourself, can you transfer this domain to another registrar right away or you have to wait 60 days to do that, even whens it not a new domain? sorry if this question sounds stupid to you, but i realy dont know!!! thanks for your answers.

 

[jehnidiah]

I'm not completely *sure*, but I've heard from a few others that the 60 day clock starts over once someone new has the domain.

 

[Dave_Z]

The 60-day no-transfer rule ideally applies to the following:

1. Newly registered domain names.
2. Newly transferred domain names to a new registrar.

To better explain #2, let's say you recently transferred your
domain name to Go Daddy from Network Solutions. Once it's
at Go Daddy, it cannot be transferred to another registrar
of your choice for at least 60 calendar days as well because,
from Go Daddy's standpoint (as well as any other registrar
you transfer to), it's a "new" domain registration but skipped
the actual registration process of getting a new one.

Hope this helps!

 

[paxton]

A recent transfer request I had from ownyourweb.com was denied for the following reason:

The domain registrant has recently changed. For security purposes, it may not be transferred for 60 days.

I purchased the domain from another forum and rather than renew at ownyourweb, I wanted to move it over to another registrar.

I don't know if this is just the policy at ownyourweb (and GoDaddy, since they seem to be exactly the same) or if it is universal.

 

[Dave_Z]

A recent transfer request I had from ownyourweb.com was denied for the following reason:



I purchased the domain from another forum and rather than renew at ownyourweb, I wanted to move it over to another registrar.

I don't know if this is just the policy at ownyourweb (and GoDaddy, since they seem to be exactly the same) or if it is universal.

Oh forgetful me, that's another condition I failed to mention.

Some registrars consider domain ownership changes as a "new"
registration as well. In essence, they "transfer" the ownership
from the old registrant's account to the new registrant's
account within the same registrar.

To better explain your case, let's say yourowndomain.com was
registered by someone and has been around after 63 days. If
you and the domain's owner have made transfer arrangements,
notified the registrar about it, and fulfilled all that's needed to
make it happen, ownyourweb transferred it from the old owner's
current, created a new one with your details, and put the
domain name there.

In so doing, however, their systems read this as a "new"
registration but having skipped the normal registration process
as well.

Will the domain name expire before its so-called "60 day
registration" occurs?

 

[paxton]

Yes, it was scheduled to expire in about 2 weeks from now, so I had little choice but to renew for another year with ownyourweb. I will just leave it there now for about 11 months and transfer it out at that time...

...unless I sell it before then, of course. :D

 

[Dave_Z]

Yes, it was scheduled to expire in about 2 weeks from now, so I had little choice but to renew for another year with ownyourweb. I will just leave it there now for about 11 months and transfer it out at that time...

...unless I sell it before then, of course. :D

He he he, good luck on selling it. :tu:

By the way, you can transfer it out - no hassles - 60 days after
if you're aware of the new ICANN transfer policies. I posted a
thread about this here:

http://namepros.com/showthread.php?t=47075

Well, almost no hassles, anyway.

 

[ugnali]

thanks

for your answers!!!

 

[stjjchs]

so if our domain expires before this 60 day period is up we have to renew it otherwise we'll lose it?