Domain Transfer Round 2: GoDaddy’s uppercut
Those of you who follow my every scintillating online exploit may recall that I recently had a bout with so-called "World's No. 1 ICANN-accredited domain name registrar" GoDaddy.com.
Seems like Go Daddy is particularly keen about holding onto its slim "dominance" of low-cost domain registration space. On his "personal" blog, company founder and CEO Bob Parsons goes all out, front and center, to rail against what he perceives is the inequity of ICANN granting Verisign/Internic a license to print money (while poor 'ol Bob can only mint a couple hundred mil.) So it's little surprise that with another company offering Dot-Com registration at prices that make even GD's seem inflated, some "roadblocks" seem to get put up when trying to move domains.
Latest case in point: my requests to transfer my remaining domains away from Go Daddy are getting denied with claims that they have "express written objection" to such transfers. Huh? From whom? 'Cause I seem to recall giving express written (well, electronic) consent to 1and1.com to get my domains... twice already!
Domain registrars beg not to transfer
So I own a bunch of domain names. We're talking about random domains purchased at the tail-end of the dot-com bubble, when everyone thought that getting a Dot-Com was like buying a piece of virtual real estate. Thus was the origin of "UP-LOAD.com" which was picked up six or so years ago with the silly idea that it sounded like a name someone might want someday. (Turns out, that someone was me.) Likewise, I bought a dozen more over the years, with an occasional one getting attention, and offers for remunerations. (That's a fancy way of saying that someone once actually paid me the BIG BUCKS to acquire a domain name.)
