At 10/18/03 4:48 AM, Winston Neutel wrote: >Peter Kiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Have a client trying to transfer some .info names and the >> transfer page is asking for an authorisation code. How does he >> get this code? > >The following was in yesterday's update. Short answer: if you're >transfering to OpenSRS from a non-EPP registrar, you'll have to wait >until October 24
Actually, that update was referring only to .org domain names. All .info registrars have used EPP from the beginning, so it's certainly possible to transfer them now. However, as others pointed out, the domain name owner needs to get the transfer authorization code from the old registrar, which can be torturous. (For those of you who don't know, Tucows' own Ross Rader was heavily involved in a task force trying to straighten this whole transfer mess out. They produced a recommendation that said, among other things, that registrars must provide the authorization codes to end users in the same way they allow users to handle contact updates and so forth, which in practice for most registrars would mean displaying them in the account management control panel -- no more of this "you have to call us, and then the rep will claim to have never heard of it" nonsense. Last I saw, ICANN seemed on track to implement these recommendations, forcing registrars to abide by them... but that was a few months ago. Ross, can you possibly give everyone an update on what's happening with that?) -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/
