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I have been using dynadot since a year. It has good feature like simple interface, simple steps, easy to use, domain deletion and refund, cheap pricing, promo etc.

But one thing I dont like is "buy lock".

Can anybody explain what is the use of this buy lock?
What is the use of buying the domain when I can't control it?

I bought a couple of domain a month ago but they are all buy locked and i no longer can push this domain to my friend who has already paid for it. This is the worst part of it. I cant see any registrar with this feature of buy lock.


Thanks

If you have any .uk domains, make sure they do not steal them when they are in the expiry period. You have right up until 11.59pm the day before they drop to renew them. But if dynadot get a bid they will steal the domain from your account so you cannot renew it. It's against their accreditation t&c's http://registrars.nominet.org.uk/registration-and-domain-management/registrar-agreement but they do it anyway.

Back in the mid-1990s, when I bought my main biz domain infoprovider.com, someone actually tried to simply re-register it for themselves! My ISP at the time actually caught it and alerted me (since he got the tech email) else the registration would have gone through. I totally support Dynadot's excellent security measures to keep our domains safe. You have no idea what skulduggery people are capable of. I now own 60+ domains and Dynadot, although a few minor faults here and there, is still the best registrar I have found on the net. Financially inexpensive and technically simple and very extensive -- the perfect thing for a small business admin with my own server. I am able to do so much more, and deliver quality at a low price.

Yes flipping domains is not quite like flipping real estate. But I would check out whether you can still hold an auction, and just put the domain into escrow.com -- with criteria that upon the release of the Lock, the domain is the buyer's and you get your cash. Can this be done?

I will never purchase anything from Dynatot marketplace too.

I agree with 'other'. A 30 day lock would be more reasonable.

What a catch!

I have the same issue with buy lock. I bought some domains fro Dynadot marketplace for resell and now stuck with "buy lock"

I will never purchase anything from Dynatot marketplace again

The Buy Lock occurs when domains are sold on the Marketplace. Dynadot facilitates the transaction and therefore accepts the financial risks.
The difference between this and PUSH or PULL actions, is that money does not change hands. Maybe, you are using PayPal to buy or sell, but Dynadot is not affected.

Hmm... I never heard of this, when does this happen because I have regged names one day and sold/pushed them the next to other accounts.  

Does this happen on the buyers end, like the guy I sold the name to couldnt sell/push  it to another account at DD for 60 Days?

Thanks,

Mike

I agree with the posts above, the lock is unnecessary.
A 30 day lock would be more reasonable.
Dynadot staff please consider this issue seriously.

The 60 day rule has been in place since day 0 of ICANN.

It is an outdated rule that Registrants never asked for, solely there to prevent domain slamming.

Imposing it within the Dynadot system for internal registrar transfers to "prevent fraud" seems a bit pointless, because the name MUST stay at Dynadot for 60 days no matter what, and if the is fraud within that time, then Dynadot has the power to act anyway.

Exactly what "fraud" can internal transfer prevention protect us from?

For what it's worth I manage about 180 domains and had a bitter fight with another registrar (WildWestDomains, if I recall correctly).

When I got married I changed my registrant name accordingly.  That's an ICANN requirement.

For 60 days those clowns refused to allow me to administer all the domains in my account.  I was furious because this was a purely administrative change and not a change in owner.

Technically the regulation states that the "...Registrar may probibit for 60 days..." and not that the "...Registrar shall probibit for 60 days..."

All that said, I have to defend Dynadot as always having been reasonable and rational during the last three years -- even when I was cross-eyed pissed about something.

Pat Ampulla