Anthony from DNSimple here. We've definitely seen a lot more of these messages since the SOPA announcement just before Christmas. Prior to that I almost never saw domains stalled because of problems getting at whois data. Whether GoDaddy is doing it on purpose or if they are just overwhelmed with the number of domains that are being transferred out is pure speculation at this point.<p>In the case of DNSimple, if you get a message like that we are currently recommending that you email us (support@dnsimple.com) and let us know which domains are currently responding with that message and we'll cancel them so you can try them again. It's a brute force way of dealing with it, it's inelegant and may end up causing even more problems for GoDaddy, but we have found that has helped a bit.<p>To be certain, this is different than the 5 day waiting period that ICANN allows. That only comes into effect <i>after</i> you've submitted the transfer request to the registry, and if you haven't received an email to authorize the transfer request then you aren't at that point yet.
3 days ago I transferred ~15 domains. The first half arrived just fine, but the last half is stuck. Those transfers have not shown in GoDaddy's pending transfer page, even after accepting Namecheap's verification emails.
Sudden uptick in requests + the holidays = a multitude of reasons why there might be a delay.<p>Don't get me wrong, I dislike GoDaddy. But let's not jump the gun on these things.
This seems like a good use-case for a distributed whois proxy... I wouldn't mind running a node for a few weeks to help NameCheap get through the backlog, especially if it helps liberates my couple of domains that are currently held hostage...
Transfers take forever, it's not a problem with godaddy. I transferred a domain into godaddy <i>before</i> all this SOPA drama and it finally "arrived" yesterday, 7 days later.<p>edit: seems this is an unrelated issue and <i>before</i> it gets to the transfer stage, my mistake.
Can anyone who's successfully transferred a .COM domain to Namecheap verify which registrar appears on the new WHOIS, Namecheap or eNom? I'm still planning my own move and where to go is a tough move -- I think it's between namecheap and name.com now, and I don't want to move if namecheap is still reselling .COM through eNom.<p>Interestingly, I looked up all the recent YC-funded companies I could think of and 99% were still at GoDaddy. I was hoping to see some pattern in who they chose to move to, but they haven't moved (yet).
Finally released the domains from GoDaddy by clicking on the domain and doing 'Accept'.<p>Now, when I do a whois it's showing as registered to eNom (I was xferring to namecheap) and then showing domain not found.<p>On namecheap's side it's showing as pending - not action required from me.<p>Anyone seen similar behavior?
Is this a Namecheap specific issue or more general to eNom who they are a reseller for. Nothing on the enom system status page... <a href="http://www.enom.com/registrynews.asp" rel="nofollow">http://www.enom.com/registrynews.asp</a>