Lucky you JMOT!... I've been banging my head for the last few hours trying to get it sorted!
.. and yes, Chris.... they're yours... I'll PM you in a mo.....
.. got this as a final management response .....
I am member of the management team at Heart Internet, and this has been passed to me for investigation. The 7days/proof of id method exists purely as a fallback, in instances where normal transfer procedures have failed, or if there has been a communication breakdown between two parties. In nearly all instances, internal transfers take place instantly, by performing an inter-customer transfer. In cases where this has not been possible (e.g. through a refusal, or due to a party being un-contactable), it is necessary to have assurance that we are taking the correct action.
Consider these example circumstances:
- Customer a) has 100 domains in their account, they manage these domains for company x.
- Disgruntled employee of company x creates a Heart Internet account in the name of company x, claims that these domains belong to them.
- We can't make the change by default, we ask customer a) to make this change, as they are administrating the domains.
- Customer a) doesn't respond to our request. What should our next step be? If we don't request proof of ownership, and simply transfer the domains over, we have made a huge error.
Alternatively, consider the case where a customer pays by invoice, and a reseller has renewed x domains for them. If we don't try and contact the other party first, to ensure that a transfer is acceptable, we've damaged the business interests of one of our customers, they will then have to pursue the matter via legal avenues.
This sort of situation occurs all too often, it is our duty to ensure that domains are never placed into incorrect accounts, I'm sure you can see that, viewing the situation purely from the outside, these circumstances closely mirror the first example case above. Without additional information upon which to base our decision, we would be wrong to forcefully move domains between Heart Internet accounts.
If you have bought these domains from a Heart Internet customer, you should be in contact with them - performing an inter-customer transfer is very quick, so the amount of administration required is minimal. They just enter the email address of the receiving account, and you click a link to confirm the transfer.
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I have to admit that although I see this as 'over administering' the responses have been very swift and I think I might be swayed to go with them after all.... and I suppose this is another layer of 'security' for my domains....
It just feels that once you've done the leg work to transfer a domain, this sort of thing should be automatic.... After I've completed a transaction it seems a bit unfair to go back to the seller to do more admin to 'complete' the sale... especially when the domains are not exactly high value!
