Sparrow_Nine - 8:22 am on Nov 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

So what's to stop people from sending out mass-transfer requests? If that happens, lots of people will be losing their domain names..

I think those that will lose domains, are the ones who don't check their e-mail regularly (forget that vacation!) or where the WHOIS admin contact doesn't match their current e-mail account, or where the registrar fails to send e-mail effectively and concisely. If you're one of those guys, and you're not aware of the changes, you're (potentially) screwed, right?

As for locking domain names... Some registrars are NOT automatically locking domain names *yet*, including GoDaddy, who have a message on their website telling everybody to do it themselves. But how many people log into their account every x days (more like every #*$! days) ... not many, not everybody are part or full-time webmasters like most of us, very few actually.