[...] We also discussed the 60 day transfer lock that Go Daddy places on domains when you change your whois information. Go Daddy General Counsel Christine Jones said this is in place to stop domain theft. While domain theft is certainly a big problem, domains are usually hijacked by compromised e-mail addresses, not whois registrant name changes. Go Daddy will have to change this practice soon because ICANN’s board recently approved a ban on this practice that had been working its way through committee. [...]

“Shut up ….Go bother someone else.”

he used to write articles about how bad ICANN is so they hired him and now he gets all the free trips. Suddenly, all the domain owners are wrong and he is right. read his post about someone who complained aboit ICANN compliance:

http://www.circleid.com/posts/icann_contract_compliance_enforcement/

What you should be wary of is how and where your ACTUAL whois information resides.

Companies like Network Solutions used to void valid email adresses, and I would end up with no.valid.emailaddress@worldnic.net and to change this I would have to submit to the 60 days procedure.

Funny thing is that this always happened less than two months before the domain name expired forcing me to stay with Network Solutions.

At least GoDaddy does not apply this dirty trick (yet). The day they do I move to another registrar.

If you really need the transfer to go through or want to prove a point you can also have a TDRP filed against GD for denying the transfer however this process takes awhile.

Jason, isn’t the TDRP intended, much more used, to resolve unauthorized transfers?

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Robert