I think it’s time for a new domainer term
March 19, 2008 by Rick Latona
I’m calling it a pull-back. Indian-pull didn’t seam politically correct. Excuse me if someone else has already given it a name. If so, please send me a link to a message board post where it has surely been discussed.
It appears GoDaddy.com gives you the option to cancel a transfer, after you have done an account change and the new owner has accepted the domain. How ludicrous is this? I’ve just had it happen a second time. Someone sends you a name, so you send them the money. The next thing they know, they pull it back! All they have to do is go to their account, go to pending account changes, check the box and click cancel. They can do this after it is finished!
Now in both cases it worked out fine because they had pulled it back because of a misunderstanding and quickly did another account change. It still leaves a huge door open for fraud.
I’m sure other registrars would let you pull back a domain as well, after you’ve pushed it.
Has anyone else experienced this?
I have not, but I did not know this was possible… Yikes!
Then again, I’ve dealt with people from forums so far who’ve had decent trader ratings, that helps.
If that was pulled on me it would be “bye bye ratings”…
John
oops forgot to put on previous post - why not call it “reversed push” if its an account-to-account domain push?
John
yu makes me afarid…
you makes me afraid…
Wow… had no idea this was possible!
while Godaddy will be better in the future with Adam in place I’m still not confident in their security at this time. Too many loopholes, like this one.
This is scary, and I think if it’s brought to the attention to the right people at GD, this issue will be fixed! There are always two sides to making this kind of news public. One it allows people to be aware of it which is great. Secondly, it’s bad to make it public, with the amount of scammers and feeding them with more knowledge.
I’ve seen this request to my other domains. This is a bug that Godaddy must close it as soon as possible.
I also second Jamie suggestion.
Cheers,
Emil
I have contacted Godaddy about this and here is the reply that I got back. —-
Thank you for contacting the Office of the President.
We understand the concerns you have forwarded to us.
Please know that we have brought this matter to the attention of our most senior quality assurance staff. This issue will be reviewed, and if any improvements are necessary, we will certainly work to make them.
Thank you again for bringing this matter to our attention. If you have any remaining questions or concerns, please let us know.
Regards,
Alon Waisman
So we will see if anything is done about it. If not, I will just keep sending them emails, phone calls etc until this issue is taken care of.
Jamie
Didn’t know about that, I wonder during what time frame after the push that can be done?
Another reason to be extra cautious when dealing with new sellers
I don’t do much buying - or selling for that matter - still, this sure sounds scary.
We should call it DaddyPull, maybe then they fix it faster…
This is why escrow is needed.
Wow! Leons is right, that is why escrow is needed.
What good is Escrow if someone pulls back the name after you have it in your account and tell Escrow to release funds?
It completely opens the door to fraud. I can’t believe GD opens the door for it. In fact, it opens the door for GD to be sued also. I’d like to see if they have terms of service that covers this issue.
GD is known for crap like this. Just recently I had 20 LLLL.com scammed from me, scammer did a pull-back of Paypal funds. Now Ive got no domains and no cash. Check out this article I wrote about it.
http://digg.com/tech_news/Paypal_and_GoDaddy_Support_and_Protect_SCAMMERS_I_D_THEFT
Never had good experience with go Godaddy.com anyway. You never know what to expect. With too many “upsells” and “traps” and a pending dispute with them, I think I would move all my names to Name.com for next renewal. With over 500 domains with Name.com, I never had one problem. Domainers deserve better with their investment.