Re: Transfering a domain

[Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>]

davidk@ISI.EDU allegedly said:
> 
> 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.

Would that this were so, but it isn't.  The old registrar can simply 
change the saved public key the owner supplied.  The registrar has to 
be able to set this field, of course...

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