Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com> writes:
Or perhaps do you mean previous owners can call in a "stop order" or "dispute" the transfer unilaterally within X days of occurence, much like it works for many REAL money transactions?
That makes considerable sense. You should be able to call in, say "roll it back", and have it stay rolled back for a few days until someone can investigate.
It is exactly what I was talking about.
If people like Melbourne IT are going to claim they can't act on weekends, it might also be sensible not to allow transfers to be processed between Thursday and Sunday, though honestly I think if you are going to be a registrar, you are going to have to deal with problems over weekends.
It is their dirty problem - if they can not act on weekend, they can not maintain a registry, that's all.
One more disturbing problem here -- it seems (based on external evidence) that someone managed to fake out the system. Although Verisign and Melbourne IT seem to think that the transfer was approved, neither Dotster nor Panix have any record at all of it. Dotster's records make them think they are still the registrar for panix.com. It appears someone cracked the system, though whether by exploiting protocol problems or in some other way isn't clear at all.
If I am allowed to say my personal opinion here - it more likely was a technical bnug or human mistake, not a hack. But let's see. This case shiould be carefully investigated, no matte if this transfer was legal or not.
Perry