To joker.com's credit they were for a while in the year 2000
the cheapest registrar in the world for .com names.

Since then, as other registrars have been offering even lower
prices I have, over a long period of time transferred a total of
more than 50 domain names from joker.com, each time without
any problem at all, both before, and also many after the new
transfer procedure was introduced.

I was a bit surprised to see such criticisms of joker.com
as I have a lot of experience with them over a period of
a few years, and in earlier times never had any problem contacting
Tech Support either, and always received a helpful reply
within 1 day.

Its a simple procedure to transfer domains from joker.com -
just need to login to account at joker.com click on the
Service Zone link, then the Registrar Change button,
which generates 2 automatic emails.
1 to the owner's email address and 1 to the admin officer's
email address.

Only need to reply to one of these emails - delete
the NO line from the email and click send to reply.
Then wait till the 10 day window opens and initiate
a transfer through a new registrar.

The procedure described through Godaddy won't work.
Its still necessary to follow the above procedure.

Godaddy is a good long term choice though,
probably much better than Registry Web,
for while Registry Web may be advertising
a price for transfers in of US$7, which is
certainly cheap, their usual price as shown
on their site is US$20 for 1 year.


Barry







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jason Pay" <jasonpay&#167;au1.ibm.com>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [DNS] please transfer domain name


| Hi,
| 
| Just my two cents, without being an advertisement, IMO godaddy.com are 
| good, their support is good and fast (within 24 hours usually) and they 
| have all the automated systems you need for transfer, If you have access 
| to the Admin-c Owner-c email address's related to the domain you want to 
| transfer, look at godaddy.com. their domain transfer system is very good. 
| All you have to do is initiate the transfer at godaddy and godaddy send 
| you a confirmation email at the admin address, you agree to the transfer 
| and they do all the work for you.
| 
| There is probably many domain registrars that provide the same service's 
| but godaddy is the one I am familiar with.
| 
| Regs,
| 
| Jason Pay
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| webdesign&#167;virtualvisions.com.au
| 22/04/03 09:11 AM
| Please respond to dns
| 
|  
|         To:     dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
|         cc: 
|         Subject:        [DNS] please transfer domain name
| 
| 
| 
| Hi,
| 
| Would anyone care to comment on the email below I received back from 
| RegistryWeb saying that as the losing Registrar they are not involved 
| in the transfers away from their services and that the gaining 
| Registrar only needs authorization from the Owner and/or Admin contact 
| of the domain name?   Is this true?  Because, I've been going in 
| circles with both Registrars ... the gaining one insists they need 
| acknowledgment from the losing Registrar whom claim they don't need to 
| give it.  So, I keep hitting a brick wall.  I've gotten nowhere for 
| over 6 weeks!  Very frustrating.
| 
| We are talking about a .com .... not sure if the rules are different 
| with .com.au's .
| Thanks, and would greatly appreciate any input. Sandra
| 
| Begin forwarded message:
| 
| > From: "RegistryWeb Discount Domains" <registryweb&#167;specialistweb.com>
| > Date: Sat Apr 19, 2003  21:02:51 Australia/South
| > To: "Virtual Visions" <webdesign&#167;virtualvisions.com.au>
| > Subject: RE: Please transfer domain name
| > Reply-To: <registryweb&#167;specialistweb.com>
| >
| > Hi,
| > I have read this very long file and we have advised many times that we 
| > are NOT INVOLVED in transfers away from our service. All requests for 
| > authorization should be sent to the relevant Owner and/or Admin 
| > contact for a domain name - there is no need for Authorization 
| > Requests to be sent to us. We have thousands of domain names 
| > transferred to and from our service every day and this is not 
| > necessary. It is only necessary for the Owner and/or Admin contact to 
| > approve the Transfer.
| 
| > We have now closed this file.
| > Regards,
| > Brian Fallon
| > Operations Manager
| > =================================================================
| > RegistryWeb Discount Domains - BIZ, INFO, COM, NET, ORG and more.
| 
| 
|