I just transfered a domain from name.com to namecheap, to test the process and the new registrar before transfering the most important domain.

After almost a week the transfer was successful, the domain was never offline, and it is still marking to one of my sites.

The strange thing is that this domain is still listed on name.com, namecheap still points it to name.com's nameservers, and they still point it to name.com's server which redirects it to my site.

The question is, why name.com keeps listing the domain and accepting it on their nameservers and redirecting server? Should I do anything about it, or just leave it since it is working?

When you transfer a domain the nameservers usually remain the same.. It all depends on whether or not the receiving registrar changes them when they accept ownership of the domain.

in your case, it all depends on if you want name.com to host the dns or not, and if they have a paragraph in their end user agreement where they allow you to use their dns like that.

There's nothing wrong with this setup as long as name.com hosts your dns permanently and don't remove it after awhile after transfer.

Maybe they are keeping the nameservers available for a while so that I can port the config without downtime. But why is the domain still listed on name.com as if it was still with them? Only thing wrong is that name.com doesn't say that expiration time was increased by 1 year.

Whois says it is with eNom.

Normally a registrar gets a poll message telling them that a domain got transfered away. The registrar should action on this and remove the domain from there system. Either name.com doesn't do this, the processing of the message errored or there polling doesn't work at the moment.
Ask the name.com support if you really care.

I will wait a couple days to see if they realize for themselves :P

What's strange is that name.com locked the domain again, so something happened on their system.

For now I wanna see if they are just giving me some days to port DNS and redirect before deleting the domain or if that's something worse.

It is correct that transfers normally don't update the nameservers. This happens at a lot of registrars. The domain remains in the old registrar's control panel but without updating the renewal date. The problem with that situation is they might continue to send you renewal notices for that domain, come renewal time. I always contact the registrar's support to ask them to remove the domain from my account (although I've not done that at Name.com). Usually they get around to it. You should of course reproduce your desired DNS entries at NameCheap.

So it is normal that losing registrar keep the domain on its cp and we need to open a ticket asking to remove it??

What happens if we don't "notify" the registrar that it lost the domain?

Sometimes , but is an annoyance. I suggest you to have a Excel With your expiration date or use a software to control and check dates.... and where are really.

So it is normal that losing registrar keep the domain on its cp and we need to open a ticket asking to remove it??

What happens if we don't "notify" the registrar that it lost the domain?

It's not actually normal, but a glitch in the system. ENOM does this frequently.

So it is normal that losing registrar keep the domain on its cp and we need to open a ticket asking to remove it??

What happens if we don't "notify" the registrar that it lost the domain?

I wouldn't say it's actually "normal". Because you'd expect the losing registrar to delete any transferred domain. But a lot of registrars work like that. If you don't notify them to delete the domain you might get a bunch of annoying renewal notices from them.

The good thing is that name.com nameservers kept resolving my domain >:)

I had to change anyway because I needed to test namecheap features, but it may be nice to have their nameservers available, they are the best.

Is it risky that when the losing registrar thinks the domain is expiring, they delete it or to any harm to it? Does the registrar keep any kind of control over the domain (beyond the nameservers)? Or does it just bother us with renewal and finally detele the domain from its database?

Do u try mydomain.com ? I like more their DNS. Take a domain You HAVE, and in the place you are, put the nameservers to ns1.nameresolve.com and ns2.nameresolve.com , create an account in domain.com and you can manage your domains DNS in domain.com , and no probloem if registered elsewhere. I use this method with more than 100 Domains.

DNSMadeEasy would be cheaper, if I'd have to pay for DNS

Mydomain.com / Domain.com DNS are free.