From: CannonBall 
Sent: Monday, 27 January 2003 9:00 PM
To: jo.lim@auda.org.au
Subject: auDA Transfer Policy Review

Importance: High

Att: Jo Lim, Chief Policy Officer

Hi Jo, well after reading the email sent to you from Enetica I find 
myself in total agreement with their submission and it seems a similar 
way of thinking after reading other submissions from resellers etc...........

I support there thoughts and concerns.

Sincerely Kelly A Day
WebStop


The main obstacle is the required email to and from the registrant 
contact, the obvious solution is to allow domain transfers to be 
authorized by simply providing the domain password. If a person 
has the domain password, they essentially have full control over 
the domain already, the choice of who they renew their domain with 
would be one of the least significant actions they could take for 
that domain.

The other major obstacle is the inability to transfer without 
renewing or to transfer at any time and have the 2 years added to 
the current expiry date. This restriction is again of no benefit to 
anyone and must be dropped.

Our preference is to simply increase the window where a transfer 
can be done without loss of registration time from the current 90 
days to 18 months. This would allow registrants the freedom to 
choose a new registrar anytime after the first 6 months, and would 
be much closer to gTLD procedures. It also prevents the license 
from ever being valid for more than 3 &1/2 years, i.e. repeated 
transfers won't result in a license valid for 10 years.

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