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ICANN Domain Warning

Update: Doh. Not enough due diligence on this one. As Kottke pointed out, this is for registrar tranfers and not domain ownership transfers. Though depending on the registrar's identity verification, it still seems this could be used to steal domains.

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Unless you live in a cave, you have probably heard about ICANNs idiotic new policy that allows domain transfers if the owner does not respond to a transfer request in 5 days. If you've just crawled out of that cave, then take note. Anyone can file a domain transfer form against a bunch of domains, and if you're on vacation, have the wrong e-mail address listed or your spam filter catches the e-mail, your domain will be transfered and you will be screwed.

Many registrars are offering transfer locking, and I highly suggest you take them up on it. If your registrar does not offer it, I suggest you change registrars.

Otherwise, follow Kottke's recommendations.

Maybe Joi Ito will be able to bring some sanity to ICANN.