What I would like is for the reseller who requested the transfer to be mentioned.
Most people probably won't understand that whoever they asked to transfer their
domain is a tucows reseller. If the name of the reseller is in the message, then
there will be less confusion.
grisha@verio.net wrote:
> Funny you should mention this because I was just bitten by this - someone
> requested a transfer of a domain that I owned with NSI and I foolishly
> followed the link to find out what's going on and ended up actually
> aproving the transfer. I've talked to both NSI and OpenSRS, and hopefully
> the transfer will not take palce or will be transferred to *my* OpenSRS
> account.
>
> There are clearly two problems with this:
>
> 1. It mentions approval of transfer to another registrar. It doesn't say
> anything about the fact that this may imply transfer of ownership.
>
> 2. It doesn't tell you who requested the transfer. Imagine that I submit a
> tranfer 2 minutes before you, and you approve it thinking that your're
> approving your request while in reality you're signing the rights to your
> domain away (to me).
>
> Grisha
>
> On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Edward Unrein wrote:
>
> > Following is what is sent to verify a domain transfer:
> >
> > "A request has been received to transfer the domain xxxx.com to the
> > registrar
> > Tucows. If you would like to approve this transfer, please visit the
> > following url and follow the instructions:
> >
> >
> > https://rr-n1-tor.opensrs.net/~vpop/transfers/index.cgi?id=1JeYv6H0UT&domain
> > =xxxx.com
> >
> > If you do not wish to approve this transfer, simply ignore this message and
> > the request will be cancelled."
> >
> >
> > Doesn't this look a bit odd, clients see that they are transferring to
> > "Tucows" with no mention of their reseller, and if that does not confuse
> > them enough the page they go to has no mention of Tucows, but displays the
> > OpenSRS logo.
> >
> > I think that this need a bit of cleaning up, maybe provide the a brief
> > explanation on the page that XYZ reseller submitted their transfer, and
> > either display Tucows or OpenSRS, but not both as isn't it "OpenSRS who is
> > fully accredited by ICANN and officially recognized by Network Solutions"
> > not Tucows which had nothing to do with the domains transfer.
> >
> > I think this needs some modifications to acknowledge that a reseller, and
> > the resellers name maybe, requested the transfer for the client.
> > Additionally either reference OpenSRS or Tucows, I don't understand why
> > Tucows is even mentioned, but not both.
> >
> >
> > Anyone else have thoughts or comments on this?
> >
> >
> > Ed Unrein
> >
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