ICANN Sets Out Domain Transfer Policy

ResQuad writes "ICANN apparently feels left out in all the recent DNS changes by Network Solutions and company, so they have announced their own series of changes. This time in the form of Inter-Registrar Transfer policy changes. They are suposedly going to make it more convenient to change registrars."

Scam the System

[jhunsake]

Here is a nice way to scam the transfer system.

Suppose you want your domain with registrar that provides a lot of services, but they are a little bit expensive. Since the transfer system adds time to the domain registration everytime you transfer, you can the services of that registrar for many years only paying their mark-up for one year.

Just register your domain at some cheap-ass registrar for a few years. Then transfer it to the registrar you want for 1 year. You just saved a bunch a money! When the domain is close to expiring, transfer back to cheap-ass and then back to your registrar.

My last transfer put me in the Doghouse

[wildzeke]

This past weekend, in fact, my domain transfer went through from Register to Godaddy. Unfortunately, I thought the mx records would be automatically setup. It wasn't. So we lost email Sunday morning and it took until today for the mx records to propagate through the Internet. My wife was pissed, because I just convinced her the switch her email, then she lost access to all the forums she belongs to.

Loss of monopoly for national TLD registrars?

[grahammm]

Does this mean that registrars such as Nominet who curently enjoy the monopoly for .uk domains will lose their monopoly?