Ask your Afternic account manager to help get your domains on Fast Transfer after a domain transfer.
When I win expired domains, I immediately list them for sale on Afternic. If they are at a Fast Transfer registrar such as Network Solutions, I’ll opt them into that as well.
After 60 days, I like to transfer these domains to GoDaddy.
When domains are transferred from another Fast Transfer registrar to GoDaddy, they lose their Fast Transfer eligibility for 60 days because GoDaddy doesn’t allow domain transfers for this long.
And when I move my DropCatch.com wins from NameBright to GoDaddy, I have to wait 60 days before doing an initial opt-in to Fast Transfer since NameBright doesn’t support it.
Unfortunately, Afternic doesn’t automatically know when a domain becomes eligible for Fast Transfer after a registrar change. The system runs Whois checks and eventually asks for domains to be opted in (or re-opted in some cases), but this can take a while.
With this in mind, the best thing to do is periodically contact your Afternic account manager and ask them to trigger the opt-in process on any eligible domains.
I tend to transfer my domains to GoDaddy in batches every couple of months, so I mark on my calendar to complete this process 61 days later.
Mark Thorpe says
Afternic’s Fast Transfer can be a pain with domain transfers and renewals.
A domain expiring before you have a chance to renew it will take the domain out of Fast Transfer status as well.
Very annoying!
Afternic should have a way for domainers to re-opt their domains for Fast Transfer.