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    Who is ___________ and why is he trying to transfer my domain to Tucows?
                                        
I get the following email:

> **From:** "OpenSRS Transfers" <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
>  **To:** <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
>  **Subject:** Transfer Request for conman.org
>  **Date:** Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:54:08 -0500 (EST)
>  
> 
> A request has been received to transfer the domain conman.org to
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, Inc., an authorized reseller of the registrar
> Tucows. This request was entered at Fri Nov 30 15:53:11 2001 by
> XXXXXXXXXXX. Note that your nameservers will not change as a direct result
> of this transfer.
> 
> This acknowledgement of transfer will be processed by Tucows Inc, an ICANN
> accredited registrar on behalf of XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, Inc. If this is a
> valid request and you wish to approve this transfer, please visit the
> following url and follow the instructions:
> 
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> 
> You will need to enter the following information to complete the transfer:
>  Domain Name: conman.org
>  Password: XXXXXXXXXX
> 
> If you do not wish to approve this transfer, you may simply ignore this
> message and the request will be cancelled, or you can use the Domain Name
> and Password above to cancel the transfer.
> 
> Accepting this transfer will change the registrar of record for your domain
> from its current registrar, to Tucows/OpenSRS; it may also change some of
> the contact information. If you are receiving this email, you should have
> initiated, or at least been aware of this request already. If this is the
> first time that you've heard of this, do not accept the transfer until you
> are satisfied that the request is legitimate.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, Inc. and Team Tucows
> 

This is interesting. Someone is attempting to move my registration for
conman.org from Network Solutions [1] to OpenSRS [2]. Someone by the name of
“XXXXXXXXXXX.”

Now, I had been thinking of moving my registration away from Network
Solutions but have held off until I've renewed and now I suppose I can look
into doing so. I called Mark [3] just to see if he may have initiated it
(just on the off chance, you know?). Nope. He was like “NO! NO! Say `No!' to
the request!” And when asked if he heard of or possibly knew who
“XXXXXXXXXXX” might be, he didn't know.

So I turned to the all knowing Google [4] and asked about “XXXXXXXXXXX.” A
few minutes poking around showed him as the owner of XXXXXXXXXX. Aha! I
thought. He made a mistake in making the request transfer. So that explains
that.

A quick email to him and the situation is clarified.

Update on Tuesday, February 12^th, 2002

XXXXXXXXXXX wrote me today informing me that it was not his mistake at all,
but that of his hosting company and that somehow they mixed up the domain. I
apologize for the assumption that it was XXXXXXXXXXX's mistake (and the quick
email wasn't as clarified as it could have been, I suppose).

I'm also agonized over how to handle his politely sent request to remove this
entry. I would like to, but doing so makes for a hole in my journal, and it
could potentially break links to that page (not that there are any) but I can
understand XXXXXX's position on this.


Update on Tuesday, August 19^th, 2003

Yet another email from XXXXXXXXXXX asking whem I'm going to remove this
entry.

I don't want to remove this entry. And obviously, I'm not toing to remove
this entry. So I went through, striking out any mention of XXXXXXXXXXX. It
will take a while for this to flush out of Google [5] (where this page is the
third result when looking for XXXXXXXXXXX). 


[1] http://www.networksolutions.com/
[2] http://www.opensrs.net/
[3] http://www.conman.org/people/myg/
[4] http://www.google.com/
[5] http://www.google.com/

Email author at sean@conman.org

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