Slightly OT Lock your domains

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

>   Quite a few members here have personal domains, or administer domains
> for clients, so this is of interest...
> 
>   ICANN has ordered a new domain-transfer policy effective today.  See
> http://icann.org/announcements/announcement-12nov04.htm for deatails.
> Executive summary...
>   good news; it's a lot easier to transfer domains
>   bad  news; it's a lot easier to transfer domains
> 
>   ***IF YOU HAVEN'T LOCKED YOUR DOMAIN***, and
>   - Registrar-X sends your registrar a request for transfer to them, and
>   - your registrar sends a request to comfirm/reject, and
>   - you do not respond within 5 ***CALENDAR DAYS***
> 
>   The ***DEFAULT*** response is to transfer the domain as requested.
> However, if the domain is locked, the transfer does not go through.  So
> see your Registrar about locking your domains *NOW*... or else forget
> about that one-week cruise vacation.

... Which is only forcibly true for .com and .net domains.

Because you have actually oversimplified things.  What happens, in
reality, is thus:

 - Registrar X sends the .COM registry an RRP request for the transfer,
   which requires no particular authorization information;

 - The registry then informs your registrar, who then informs you...

Those registries that use More Modern Protocols like EPP to manage
domain registration do not have this problem, because in order to
request the transfer, Registrar-X is required to have an authentication
token that they would have to get from you.  If they haven't got the
token, the transfer request will fail.
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