Hello ecs,
Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 3:10:53 PM, you wrote:
> Please forgive me if I am wrong, but from your message the issue appears to
> be that you are attempting to violate your contract with them by
> transferring the domain names to another Registrar without paying the
> appropriate fees.
A registrar cannot prevent a transfer of a domain name with these
terms. If indeed what this person is saying is accurate, then the
registrar in question would be in violation of the ICANN contracts on
domain transfers between registrars.
However, having checked out the site in question, I don't see that
they charge for approving transfers. The price he is mentioning
appears to be for transfering ownership of domains between two unique
persons, not registrar transfers.
The issue appears to be that they list themselves as the admin
contact, a shady, and unethical practice, since the admin contact is
effectively the owner of the domain name. Then they ignore and do not
appear to pay attention to the emails to approve the transfers of the
domain name to a new registrar.
Perhaps this constitutes a violation of the spirit of the ICANN
Agreements. Being that they are a CORE registrar, nothing surprises
me. CORE is repeatedly mentioned in domain circles as the worst
registrar in the system. CORE member registrars are restricted by
many limitations in the CORE system, and by archaic and strange
"policies" by CORE. Getting anything resolved with them will end up
taking you several months, based on experience. Even when cases are
brought to the personal attention of the CORE president, Ken Stubbs,
and he promises to look into them, it can be weeks before you get a
response, if you are lucky to get one at all.
You lay down with dogs.....
This is why no one should ever do business with the CORE registrars
who are processing through CORE.
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Best regards,
William mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
