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Understanding the Status of a Domain Name Transfer (except .EU, .UK, .WS)
Upon successfully executing a Transfer for a
Domain Name (except a .EU, .UK, .WS Domain Name), your domain name's Transfer action
will initiate. You can easily track the status of your domain name's transfer by
following these steps:
1. Login to your Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you
have placed the Transfer request.
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2. Click on the domain name to view the Order
Details.
3. Note the Action Requested and the Status of
the Action. There can only be the following Statuses of a domain name that has not yet been
transferred to ethainetwork.com:
Trying to fetch Admin Contact Email
Address
In order to ensure that, an Authorised person is placing this Transfer Request, we send an email to the Administrative Contact of the Domain Name for authorising the transfer. Our system automatically fetches the Admin Contact e-mail address
by contacting the Whois Server of the Current Registrar. However, sometimes the Current Registrar's
Whois Server does not respond to our request.
ethainetwork.com would attempt to contact the Current
Registrar's Whois server for the Administrative contact details every hour
for upto 24, and then even try to manually fetch the same. In
almost all cases we will be able to send the Administrative Contact E-mail
within 48 hours.
Action waiting for domain to be unlocked
This implies that the domain name you are
trying to transfer has been locked by the Current Registrar. In this state, you
need to Unlock the domain name with the Current Registrar before the transfer
can be processed further. The system automatically checks every hour if the
domain name has been unlocked, and processes the transfer (once the domain name
is unlocked).
In this situation, you may click on either
the
- Retry button - if you have unlocked your
domain name and immediately want the
Transfer to proceed, or
- Cancel button - if you choose to fail this
Transfer
IMPORTANT
The Transfer order would automatically fail if the
domain name is not unlocked within 7 days (from the moment its corresponding Invoice is settled).
Transfer waiting for Admin Contact Approval
Upon initiating a Transfer, our system sends an e-mail to the Admin
Contact of the domain name as appearing in the Whois Server of the Current
Registrar. You can verify the e-mail address we fetched from their Whois Server,
at the time you initiated the transfer within the Order Details page itself.
In case the Admin Contact does not receive the
Transfer Request in an hour after placing a transfer, you may resend the
Transfer Request by clicking on the Resend Authorization Request button.
IMPORTANT
There might be instances where the Admin
Contact Email Address was changed after the transfer request was placed.
In such a case, clicking on Resend Authorization Request would not send
the mail to the new Email address. To send the Email to the new address, the
current transfer needs to be failed and a fresh transfer order needs to be
placed.
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Sometimes, it may be possible that the Admin
Contact has still not received an e-mail sent by our system, due to any of
several problems including network blockages, spam filters, etc.. To circumvent
such a situation, you may click on the Transfer Fax Form button and follow the
instruction therein, to send us your consent to Transfer your domain name to ethainetwork.com.
We await for 5 days for the Administrative
Contact to approve the Transfer. If the Administrative Contact remains
silent (neither approves or disapproves the transfer), we assume that the
Administrative Contact does not wish to transfer his domain name and we
delete this Order in our system.
Transfer waiting for Losing Registrar
Approval
You may see this status when the
Administrative Contact has Approved
the Transfer Request sent by ethainetwork.com and now the transfer
is awaiting the Current Registrar to approve the Transfer. Ideally, your domain
name should transfer in 5 days, from the time this status is displayed.
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