[registrars] Transfers: Back to square one

[CHAVANIS Vincent]

Dear,

That is *exactly* what i thought too.
The new inter-registrar transfer procedure
is going to be "hijacked" by some registrars acting like this. :(
if we keep in mind that this new policy has been set up
in order to prevent abuses ...

regards

Vincent.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus Faure" <faure at globvill.de>
To: <registrars at dnso.org>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: [registrars] Transfers: Back to square one


>
> 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 --
>
>
>