Re: Transfering a domain

[davidk@ISI.EDU]

Rick,

> Rick H. Wesson writes :
> 
> How will transfers of a domain from one regestry to another
> take place? I expect it take the acknolagement from the regestry
> holding the domain, the regestry the domain is being transfered to,
> the end user requesting the domain transfer and the folks running
> the CORE database be involved.
> 
> Whom would an end user ask, if they are to ask CORE for the transfer
> then I would expect that the folks that run the CORE database need
> to charge an administrative fee much like the ARIN proposal for the
> transfer of IP Networks. If speculation in new domain names is high,
> then I would expect the load on the folks running the CORE db to be
> high also.
> 
> How should a transfer of ownership of a domain take place? How do you
> make sure these transfers are authorized?

My light-weight proposal solves this rather elegantly:

Transfer of 'ownership of a registration' can be done secure and easily
if the repository knows the public key of the end-user as well as the
registrars. Any update should be accepted if it is (validly) signed by
the end-user as well as by *any* of the registrars. The trick is now that
the end-user doesn't need the cooperation of the old registrar if (s)he
wants to change registrar which is definitely positive for the end-users
in a world with competing registrars that might even not exist anymore
when they go out of business.

David K.
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