“…I thought everyone might like to know what Network Solutions is doing to discourage domain transfers. In the good ol’ days, you could request a transfer from NSI to another registrar. The new registrar would make the request, the admin contact would approve the request, and the ‘losing registrar’ couldn’t block the request unless the domain owner owed money or the registration had expired… About 20 days ago, NSI changed the process…”
Link:
http://www.interesting-people.org/200107/0001.html
