Read through for some comments...
Charles Daminato
TUCOWS Product Manager
chuck@tucows.com
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Robert L Mathews wrote:
> At 2/26/02 2:02 PM, George Kirikos wrote:
>
> >What would the side effects be?
>
> Well, the two already mentioned: it doesn't allow you a grace period to
> unlock the domain if you realize you forgot to do it before transferring
> (meaning you have to go back and resubmit the order from scratch at the
> other registrar), and it doesn't allow you to change the nameservers
> without unlocking it and remembering to relock it afterwards.
>
A *possible* enhancement could place an error message when changing
nameservers, and then give the registrant the choice to have the system
automatically unlock/change/lock. Like:
"This domain is currently locked. Would you like me to unlock the domain,
make these nameserver changes, and lock the domain for you?"
Of course, that could be written by a savvy programmer, as that's all
client side ;)
> It would be nice if registrar transfer systems (including the OpenSRS
> client) would detect that a domain name is locked at the registry during
> the transfer lookup phase, if that's possible (can registrars find out if
> a domain is locked by doing a query?).
Unfortunately this isn't possible. A registrar cannot place any kind of
query on a domain name if it's not the sponsoring registrar. All we can
determine is if the domain exists (not the expiry date to prevent transfer
attempts < 60 days, nor prevent domains from being transfer attempted if
on lock *sad*). This, unfortunately, is a[nother] registry limitation
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
>
> "The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
> appreciates how difficult it was."
This applies to older siblings too! ;)
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