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I believe there's a 60 or 90 day period before you can transfer a domain after you've registered it anyways.

• danielzarick 13y ago
  You can usually transfer it to another user on the same registrar. They just don't want to lose it to another company. (At least, that's my super rough understanding of it.)
  • t0 13y ago
    You should match people that have submitted domains from the same registrar so fees are avoided in most cases.
    • danielzarick 13y ago
      That sounds like a wonderful idea... but far too much work for it to be worth it. Maybe next year...
      • bushido 13y ago
        You could make the source available and let some of us help contribute to make this possible.
      • t0 13y ago
        Oh it's simple really. $conn = fsockopen ('whois.verisign-grs.com', 43, $errno, $errstr, 1); fputs($conn, $domain."\r\n"); while(!feof($conn)) $output .= fgets($conn,128); $registrar = reset(explode("\n",end(explode('Registrar:',$output))));
        • danielzarick 13y ago
          Awesome! Thanks for this. I'll play with it over the weekend. Still working on the specifics.