At 8/29/03 2:20 AM, Brian wrote:
>i've never had a transfer to them before, but i've just received the Tucows
>confirmation email (the one which gives the domain and transfer key)... from
>past experience, when you enter the domain & key, you are given the chance
>to check the whois details (i.e compare old to new) - but with this
>transfer, there is no such option available... for all I know, this could
>have come from anywhere (i know it to be genuine, but a whois comparison
>would have been useful).
>
>is this option dependent upon the receiving registrar providing the details
>to Tucows?
You're thinking of transfers TO Tucows, which do show the new WHOIS
information. (Tucows obviously has access to both the old and new WHOIS
at that point.)
Transfers FROM Tucows don't show the new WHOIS, because, as you
suggested, Tucows does not have the new WHOIS information from the new
registrar.
The new registrar is supposed to have already verified that it's an
authentic transfer; the message from Tucows is just a last-ditch warning
to the unwary. For example, if the new registrar's verification process
includes a WHOIS comparison, they would presumably have already shown the
WHOIS comparison to the customer in a previous e-mail that you didn't
see. (They probably don't actually use a WHOIS comparison, because that
seems to be a Tucows thing, but hypothetically.)
-- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve." -Orwell
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