Welcome to the world of clueless NSI employees. If you telephone them and
ask the question, they will always give the answer you received. However,
in real life, what they say is not true. In reality, unpaid status in
determining registrar transfer ability occurs on the actual domain
expiration date. HOWEVER, this is no excuse to wait until the day before
expiration, you should always submit your registrar transfer request as
soon as possible to avoid the stall tactics that NSI is beginning to
deploy. You will not lose any registration time by transferring a domain
away from NSI but you will usually gain security advantages so
transferring sooner rather than later makes perfect sense.
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Nitin Agarwal wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
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> I just got off the phone with Network Solutions about the transfer of a
> domain name, and they said that they consider domain names in unpaid status
> when the invoice is sent (Which is usually 30 or 60 days before the domain
> is going to expire). So even though the domain name is not set to expire
> until June 22, they said I have to pay for at least one year and then
> transfer it to another registrar. Isn't this against ICANN regulations? I
> thought that you could transfer the domain name until the anniversary date?
>
> Thanks,
> Nitin Agarwal
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