At 07/03/2007 06:24 PM, John L wrote:
Danny has proposed that the ALAC initiate research on a specific, registrant-affecting question: What are the scope and magnitude of transfer-away fees among the various registrars?
In my experience, the fees are less of a problem than registrars who don't provide the required authcodes, or who provide them very slowly.
Fees may be one way that registrars make it difficult to transfer domains, and authcodes as well. But most make it difficult just by obscurity. All registrars readily tell you how to transfer domains in - but rarely make it as easy to understand the out process. One registrar I have used use allows the owner to do virtually anything possible with their online management tool. Except unlock the domain for transfer. That must be done via e-mail... Alan