On Tuesday 04 May 2004 17:42, bill@daze.net wrote:
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> That has always been the way transfers function.
This doesn't stop it being a foolish way of doing things.
If nothing else it is unintuitive to new people (because I suggest they assume
a sensible model of working), but it has more fundamental failings.
> This is *after* the gaining registrar has positively confirmed the intent
> of the domain registrant.
Melbourne IT have transferred away domains from us without positive consent of
the listed registrant (in this case the registrants email address was mine) -
this is the problem - it relies on random strangers elsewhere on the Internet
with whom you don't have any contractual relationship doing things right. You
can't vote with your feet to a better system if you have no relationship with
the people who are messing up. About all you can do is lobby ICANN saying the
group involved did it wrong, and it is inevitably a complex story,
misunderstanding usually are.
Domain locking is a fudge because the basic model is wrong, transfer of a
domain should only ever have been permitted through a positive action on the
part of the registrant with their current supplier. Domain locking is an
extra step that makes the process liveable, but it doesn't fix a broken
process, and won't until it is the default everywhere.
Anyway I don't think this is the forum that will fix it.
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