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I recently bought a name on the marketplace to resell. However, it seems I can't do that because DynaDot sets a 60 day "buy" lock status on it. Very bad, and no reason for this nonsense.

Yes, the lock will prevent a ownership change or a registrar change but as explained previously, it is designed for security's purpose. We do appreciate all the feedbacks and ideas and will forward them to our team and see if we could improve some of these in the future. Thanks for all your suggestions.

But unlike new registration, you can not even 'push' the domain to another user account, isn't it?

Yes, that is correct. Similar to a new registration, you will not be able to transfer the domain within the first 60 days.

https://www.dynadot.com/community/help/question/buy-lock

Okay. I didn't know that Marketplace buy lock is different than the "change of domain registrar lock" enforced by ICANN.

So if I buy a domain from marketplace, i must wait 60 days before I can resell it to someone. I stand corrected.

the lock prevents you from pushing into another dynadot account as well.

You can still park and market your domain(s).
And when you find an interested buyer, (or the buyer finds you .. lol)
tell him that you will only push the domain into his Dynadot account. :)

I bought a domain with intentions of reselling it for a profit. and they wont let me sell something I bought.This doesn't make sense at all. I shouldn't have to wait 60 days!!!

I know....but I am I hope a trusted dynadot member at this point.  I was the buyer and the domain was less than $20.  I bought an expiring domain for over $1700 and the lock was only 15 days...??  Doesn't make sense.

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?

t_p_new_hampton_us: The domain can still be used during this time. You just wouldn't be able to transfer the domain out of Dynadot or move it to a different Dynadot account. You can still set your name servers, DNS, etc.