Hello John,
That is not NSI harassment, that is a perfectly legitimate reason for
blocking the transfer.
You should never wait until the last few days to transfer a domain
name. You should note on your site to your customers that waiting
even to the last 30 days is a risky proposition. If any problems come
up, they are not leaving themselves very much time at all to wait for
the transfer to time out, fix the problem, and get the transfer
resubmitted, and wait for its approval.
Explain to them that there is no penalty for early transfer, since
they will not lose any remaining time on the domain, be it 30 days or
2 years. The year will be added to the end, and you need to make that
clear to them.
Any domain registrant who wants till the last few days is setting
themselves up for this kind of thing. Once that expiration date
passes, the monies are owed to the existing registrar, and they are
perfectly within their rights to deny the transfer. It is both
ethical and legal.
Encourage them to transfer all of their domain names immediately,
whether they have 30 days or 8 years remaining. Leaving domains at
NSI is a risk proposition anyway, since just about any bozo with MS
Publisher and a fax modem can forge letterhead and make faxed
authorization changes to the domain name and have the domain
transferred to themselves and/or to another registrar before they even
realize they have been victimized.
Tuesday, June 05, 2001, 4:03:24 PM, John Blakney wrote:
> I have a customer that is trying to transfer some NSI registered domains to
> OpenSRS near their expiration date and NSI has struck again.
> The whois shows: Record expires on 01-Jun-2001.
> On 5/31 we put in a transfer request and it processed through Tucows with an
> order time of 05/31/01 05:11:14 PM with a status of "Pending Registry
> Approval"
> Then NSI got into their new delay and procrastinate policy and... Today
> (June 05) my customer got the following:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 14:04:33 -0400 (EDT)
> To: xxx
> Subject: [NIC-xxxxxx.xxxx] Change of Registrar - Domain Name Failed
> Criteria/Denied
> Dear xxx:
> Because the domain name, xxx.NET, did not meet the criteria to
> change registrars, Network Solutions/Verisign has instructed the Registry
> not to change the registrar.
> Specifically, the domain name didn't meet the criteria because:
> It is not in a paid status at Network Solutions/Verisign.
> Sincerely,
> Network Solutions, Inc.
> Change of Registrar Group
> --------------------------------
> I know that we encourage folks to transfer 30 days before expiration but
> what is the new time period beyond which we are screwed?
> John Blakney <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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