What is the TDRP?
When changing your contact information in your account settings or elsewhere, you will find multiple references to Opt-in or Opt-out of the ICANN TDRP.
The TDRP or Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy, is a mechanism created by ICANN, a governing body that regulates domain names for most TLD's like .coms and .orgs, etc. The TDRP helps protect domain owners and admins from fraudulent activity, identity theft, transfer or theft of their domain.
We strongly advise against opting-out of the TDRP.
Changing registrant or contact information triggers a mandatory 60-day hold per ICANN. This includes any changes made to the name, organization and email address in the contact information of your domain account.
The 60-day hold affords registrars and victims of Identity Theft or Domain Hijacking a better opportunity to retrieve their domain in the case of domain theft, etc.
If you need to change the registrant contact for your domain, transfer the domain to another registrar or party, or move it to another DomainSpot account, your modification will trigger a 60-day hold preventing subsequent transfers to external registrars for 60 days.
Don't worry! If you plan to use your domain for email or website purposes, it will remain fully functional and usable during any 60-day hold.
Only domain transfers and changes to the registrant contact information will be prohibited during that period. You can proceed to change the contact information, etc. after the 60-day hold, however each change will be followed by another subsequent 60-day hold. (It's confusing, we know!)
60-day holds can become problematic when changing the registrant name for the domain while it’s still with us at DomainSpot, and then attempting to transfer it to the person you've sold it to who may have it at another provider.
The first change (updating the name of the registrant) is allowed. The second change in this example, transferring to another provider, will then trigger an automatic a 60-day hold.
If considering transferring your domain to another registrar, we highly recommend transferring first, then changing the contact info under the new registrar, after the transfer has been completed.
How the TDRP helps you:
When you transfer your domain name to the control of someone else, or change the contact info associated with the domain, a 60-day lock is placed on it which prevents it from being transferred again in that time period.
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