I will keep this short, one line, like a crow cawing in the distance.

I would not be surprised if somebody like the EU, or an aggressive Registrar, introduces the use of
 a distributed ledger (e.g. blockchain) to reduce the complications in domain name transfers.

Sam L.

On 3/6/2018 10:29 PM, Rob Golding wrote:
A couple of last minute comments:

"If an escrow agent is involved, they are expected to verify the transfer

to buyer before releasing funds."

There are often other steps, contractual requirements and so on not just
when using escrow, what about changing that to 

* Additional steps, checks, processes and procedures may need to take place
depending on the terms of the purchase/sale - this is commonly but not only
when additional parties such as escrow are involved.
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