I used to be an expert on this mess, two years ago, maybe the rules have changed... but at that time: Transferring registrations is like changing brokers or phone companies; the "winning" registrar just pulls your account from the "loosing" registrar. That operation is free, but when the account moves you need to purchase registration one more time - you will loose the any outstanding time on your existing registration.
The winning registrar is scared they will pull a domain that you don't own; so they establish some little ritual to attempt to authenticate you. People have settled into asking you to fax your driver's license.
You should not need to interact with the loosing registrar at all. It is very hard for them to prevent the transfer. That said some loosing registrars will send an email to assert that you have requested the transfer and there is no reason not to respond.
For the low price registrars they manage to get only 10-15% of the money you pay, most of it goes thru to registry. But then they don't do much more than run a web UI to the registry's APIs.
- ben
On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 03:40 PM, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
i have *got* to transfer my domains away from networkproblems.com. they've become completely impossible, as opposed to just mostly.
does anyone have any particular recommendations for a good registrar for .com/.net/.org domains, that won't charge exhorbitantly for the transfer or require a minimum of n years signup?
i have one registration with dotster, but i'm not *completely* happy with their fee structure. i have no experience with any other registrars at all. -- #ken P-)}
Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/
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