[registrars] Transfers: Back to square one

[Marcus Faure]

Hi all,

last Friday NSI has registrar-locked ALL of its domains (without asking its
customers), no matter if it were end-customer or reseller domains. As far
as I can see, all major registrars have their domains on lock now.
This will lead to a situation where a gaining registrar will send the FOA
to the registrant and upon approval will fail to start the transfer, meaning 
he will have to ask the customer to try to get his domain unlocked and
restart the process al over again.

Conclusion: If we wanted to have a standardized transfer process, we failed.
Customers will still have to go through a proprietery "have my domain unlocked"
procedure, only that now the additional overhead is mandatory. We have lost
three years debating and the result is a solution that is worse than the 
situation we had last week.

Totally unhappy

Marcus
CORE Council of Registrars


BTW: Maybe lock-"friendly" registrar should have a close look at this excerpt
from the GNSO recommendation 
(http://www.icann.org/gnso/transfers-tf/report-12feb03.htm):

-- snip --
9. It is recommended that the Losing Registrar use the EPP or RRP command set
equivalent of ?Registrar Hold? prior to receiving a transfer notification
from the Registry as a mechanism to secure payment from a Registrant in the
event of non-payment. The Losing Registrar should not use the EPP or RRP
command set equivalent of ?Registrar Lock? for this same purpose.
-- snip --