Actually, my take of this is to hook it to a small payment gateway and explain to customers that it is to their advantage to LOCK their domain names and that locking your domain secures it from being transferred away by malicious people... Kind of like a $5 insurance plan.
Lock - $5 Unlock - FREE Why charge a fee, inevitably the customer will try to transfer his own domain name and prob. in about 50% of the cases the customer will call or email in and ask why they can't transfer their domain name (Even though they paid the $5)... so the $5 covers the cost of that minor technical support issue that would arise. I dunno... don't bother picking apart my take of these things, it's late and I ran out of Diet Coke. Tom. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William X Walsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "myOstrich Internet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'OpenSRS Discuss List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 03, 2002 7:03 PM Subject: Re[4]: Registrar Lock > Sunday, Sunday, March 03, 2002, 4:59:25 PM, myOstrich Internet wrote: > > > Since the default action of a non-response to a transfer request is > > approval, I suspect we will enable the lock by default on all domains - > > requiring that the lock be removed by the user prior to allowing a > > transfer. > > The way it should work is that you explain FULLY to your registrant > what the lock means and what the consequences are, and they make the > informed choice to activate it or not. > > The purpose is to provide a tool for the registrant to decide how to > protect their domain.
