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 --