Domain Hijacking under ICANN’s new transfer policy

Monday, March 21st, 2005

SearchEngineJournal.com has a great first-person story about trying to hold a domain name that is facing repeated hijacking attempts.

ICANN’s policy used to require a confirmation from the current domain name owner before a transfer. Now the transfer is automatic after five days unless the current owner cancels the transfer. The new policy was created to help domain name owners–many times I tried to transfer domains held at poorly managed registrars only to have that registrar not transfer the domain–but is having unintended side effects. See ICANN may review domain transfer procedures.

Further Reading:

  1. GoDaddy May Have to Stop ’60 Day’ Transfer Policy
  2. Is GoDaddy violating ICANN’s transfer policy?
  3. ICANN may review domain transfer procedures

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