A couple months ago, I acquired two domains from (shudder) NameZero.com by bidding on the domains that the previous owners had let expire. By bidding and winning these domains, I was also given NameZero "Plus Service" (yeah right) with both domains.

So, the initial 60 day waiting period for transferring registrars has expired and I am ready to transfer the domains far, very far away from NameZero. Here's the problem: I was checking the WHOIS information and while the contact info looks good, the expiration dates are all messed up.

For example, one of the domains was registered on 10/30/2001, yet the WHOIS info indicates:

Record expires on 12-May-2003
Record created on 07-Nov-2001

The other domain, registered on 11/05/2001 indicates:

Record expires on 16-May-2002
Record created on 12-Nov-2001

:confused:

The first domain looks to be registered for longer than a year where as the 2nd domain is registered for way less than a year.

Here's my dilemma: I have read the horror stories surrounding NameZero and I have a few to tell myself. I am wondering if I should bother to have them correct the registration dates and risk a trouble ticket of monumental proportions or just have the domains transferred elsewhere and get out without risking them mucking something else up.

My fear with just having the domains transferred is that later on it might come back to bite me by possibly losing the domains because of some weird registration date glitch.

I would very much appreciate any and all advice you nice people might have to offer me. :)

I would simply transfer away and not worry about it.

-t

get out of namezero ASAP :-)

Yep, just get out of there. They SUCK!! ;)

-Kyle

OK, I’m pretty sure I see a bit of a trend developing here. ;)

Thank you all for your straightforward “no beating around the bush” answers. :laugh:

But let me ask one more question: Does anyone know where the “official” record of the domain registration is actually stored? Are the created and expired dates in the WHOIS document the official dates or is there some other record that could somehow supercede them? :confused:

The registrar of record for a given domain contains the definitive information for that domain.

Here's a description of how the process works:

http://www.opensrs.org/whois/newwhois.shtml

-t

Thank you for the link to OpenSRS.org - that cleared things up for me. :)

Thanks for your advice everyone. As soon as one of my transfers successfully completed to StarGate this morning, I initiated the other one.