FWIW:
I do have one customer who had over 300 domains with register.com and
transferred them to us with no hassle from register.com, other than the
usual "verification" procedures, which I told him he could ignore, as long
as he followed the opensrs verification procedures.
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, cpaul wrote:
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>
> the first time a customer tried to transfer from register.com, they offered
> my potential customer a reduced $12 rate if he was to stay with them. he
> decided he would stay, and they charged him $35.
>
> now the second customer of register.com who has tried to transfer to my
> opensrs system has been met with messages such as "you failed to do the
> transfer within 3 days" and "this domain was not requested to be
> transferred" .. yet the links in the mail they send were copied verbatim
> within the alotted timeframe.
>
> i've heard other rumblings on-list about register.com, and they are clearly
> engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.
>
> are register.com in violation of icann rules?
>
> or is it permitted or overlooked that a losing registrar makes the transfer
> process as awkward and difficult as possible?
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>
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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