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07-04-2009, 02:22 AM #1New Member
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Dealing with godaddy's 60 days policy
Everyone knows that godaddy is suck; for the detail, you may refer to nodaddy.com. The most famous incident recently is that godaddy changed ping.fm's DNS record.
Therefore, I decided to move out from godaddy.com to name.com. Somehow, they rejected me due to the reason that I have changed my contact information within the past 60 days. After searching the related informations on internet, I found that godaddy can not prohibit customs to transfer their domain out just because of changing the contact information within the past 60 days, which also have been addressed by ICANN specificially. I quote some of the message I found on internet.
"Express written objection to the transfer from the Transfer Contact.
(e.g. - email, fax, paper document or other processes by which the
Transfer Contact has expressly and voluntarily objected through opt-in
means).
Source: www [dot] icann.org/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm
As the check box as not voluntary I had no choice but to agree with your
60-day hold, even though it is not adhering to ICANN’s policies."
As a result, I wrote them a message encompassing the following message,
"Last time, I tried to transfer my domain name away from godaddy.com;
somehow it did not succeed, and you told me that I have changed my
contact informations within past 60 days. Today, I find that it's
illegal for you to prevent me to do so. According to the ICANN, ICANN
does not require domain transfers to be blocked if changes are made to
the registrant’s data within the past 60 days. Believe me or not, if
you do not AGREE me to transfer away from you, I'm gonna to SUE you.
I'm very upset by godaddy."
They finally have to agree me to leave them. If you have the some problem as mine, you may try to complain about this issue using unyielding manner of speaking; it should work.
<<snipped>>Last edited by bear; 07-04-2009 at 08:34 AM.
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07-04-2009, 04:09 AM #2Web Hosting Master
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Can you just clarify...: Did this actually work for you?
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07-04-2009, 04:11 AM #3New Member
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My request for transfer has already been successfully processed and is now being moved to name.com
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07-04-2009, 08:22 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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I thought they had changed this policy recently, I guess they haven't and are still annoying customers.
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07-06-2009, 12:32 AM #5Web Hosting Master
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Provided it's not the first 60 days after registration, then all you have to do is request for the lock to be lifted.
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07-06-2009, 03:29 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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Not with Godaddy, or at least not until recently. Godaddy have/had this extra rule saying that if you made any changes at all to the Whois (even if it's just something totally minor like adding or deleting a fax number) then you can't transfer the domain for 60 days. And this is something on which they used to be totally inflexible. I bought a domain from a Godaddy customer a few years back and they absolutely refused to let me move it for 60 days after changing the Whois information from the seller's to mine.
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07-06-2009, 04:56 AM #7Junior Guru Wannabe
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Is this Happening only with GD or its the same for many other companies???
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07-06-2009, 08:02 AM #8
GoDaddy is the only registrar I've heard of that does this. It's one of several reasons I don't leave any domains there once I can move them out.
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07-06-2009, 08:11 AM #9New Member
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Yes as far as i know it is just GoDaddy.
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07-15-2009, 02:44 PM #10Junior Guru Wannabe
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Yes GoDaddy are still doing this. I called and they said it's for security reasons (sly dogs)
Just to clarify - is it possible to get them to drop the 60 day transfer period?
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07-15-2009, 02:50 PM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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No, this is applicable with every registrars. If you just renew your domain name then you have to wait for 60 days to transfer your domain name to another registrars and your domain name should be unlocked.
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07-15-2009, 04:18 PM #12Mobile Multimedia Minimalist
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Co-Founder @HostHideout. Profoundly influenced by #Bauhaus, @Nameslave unrepentantly embraces #Minimalism with a bias for functionality, color theory and pixel precision: a #multimedia messenger in the McLuhan sense. His totally irrelevant M.Ed. dissertation examines Organizational Culture and Change Management. He also likes Patrik Ervell, Wong Kar-wai and IKEA.
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07-15-2009, 11:41 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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I've been requesting these unlocks for at least as long as the ICANN directive has been in place without any objections from Godaddy. They've always taken the lock off so the domain can be transfered.
For everyone's info. It's only if the Registrant info changes. Even by a punctuation mark. You can change the other details without incurring the 60 day hold. But it's a moot point, if all you have to do is ask them to remove the lock.Signature Under Construction.
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07-16-2009, 12:14 AM #14Junior Guru
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There's no rule that says that you cannot transfer a domain within 60 days of updating contact info. This is only for domains that have been registered or transferred within 60 days.
Anyway, the reason why I keep my domain away from GoDaddy is because of their ridiculous policies (such as this one), and the overpriced addon services.
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07-16-2009, 11:16 AM #15Junior Guru Wannabe
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Thanks Stub - that's good to know.
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07-19-2009, 11:34 AM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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they say "for security reason" any transfer will be denied for 60 days past the whois details update. moreover be sure to provide *always* correct info (as per icann requirement) to avoid to see your domain locked by gd.
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07-22-2009, 06:42 PM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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As far as I know, you can not transfer your domain if it is just renewed. You have to wait for 60 days and the status should be unlocked of the domain name.
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07-22-2009, 07:29 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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07-22-2009, 07:49 PM #19Mobile Multimedia Minimalist
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Co-Founder @HostHideout. Profoundly influenced by #Bauhaus, @Nameslave unrepentantly embraces #Minimalism with a bias for functionality, color theory and pixel precision: a #multimedia messenger in the McLuhan sense. His totally irrelevant M.Ed. dissertation examines Organizational Culture and Change Management. He also likes Patrik Ervell, Wong Kar-wai and IKEA.
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07-23-2009, 03:02 PM #20Junior Guru Wannabe
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ok sorry. I got the point
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07-23-2009, 05:21 PM #21Web Hosting Master
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07-23-2009, 07:05 PM #22Aspiring Evangelist
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This is CLEARLY more of the games GoDaddy plays
In the end a large number of users get fed up and move away
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09-20-2009, 02:23 PM #23WHT Addict
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Hello,
I have just bought a domain which is at Godaddy. The seller transfered the domain from his Godaddy account into mine, and I also changed the whois record of course.
Before I could accept the domain into my Godaddy account, I had to accept a policy where they claimed that I cannot transfer out the domain to other registrar for 60 days.
So is it against ICANN policy even in this case (Godaddy account change + whois change)?
All I need to do is contact support and ask for unlocking the domain?
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09-20-2009, 02:41 PM #24Web Hosting Master
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See Rule #9 (emphasis added):
Originally Posted by ICANN Rules[GB ≠ GiB] [MB ≠ MiB] [kB ≠ kiB] [1000 ≠ 1024] [Giga ≠ gram] [Mega ≠ milli] [Kelvin ≠ kilo] [Byte ≠ bit]
There is no millibit. There is no gram-bit. There is no Kelvin-Byte.
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09-20-2009, 02:56 PM #25WHT Addict
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Thanks.
But domain has been even renewed a few days ago... So these events occured with the domain in the past few days:
1) renewal
2) account change
3) complete whois change
Now if I unlock the domain (there is an option in the control panel that I can either lock or unlock the domain) and email Godaddy customer support that allow me to transfer out the domain, they should allow the transfer?
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