[registrars] Q: are registrars allowed to deny transfers-out

[Thomas Barrett - EnCirca]

Another registrar recently explained to me they denied a transfer to EnCirca
of an expired domain name because they said the registry would not give out
a refund to the losing registrar for the auto-renewal.

Can someone confirm if all of the gtld registries provide refunds for
auto-renewals that are transferred out before the end of the auto-renewal
period?

Tom



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-registrars at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Mark Jeftovic
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:08 PM
To: Registrars Constituency
Subject: [registrars] Q: are registrars allowed to deny transfers-out

...if the domain is in an expired state?

I know we allow it, many others do, but under the new transfer policy can a
registrar use this as a valid reason to block a transfer out or revoke
access to the registrar-lock status?

-mark

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