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How to sell a domain I just bought?

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I've just bought a domain purely for the purpose of selling it on (I won't mention it, as selling is not allowed here). The registrar's Ts and Cs says I can't transfer within 3 months of buying it. How do I get around this, are there registrars I can use who don't apply this limit?

If I was going to offer this domain for sale, what should I say, something like: "I can point it to your nameservers now and give you full control of the domain in three months time" (which sounds crap to me) or is there nothing I can do, I just gotta wait 3 months - what do you guys suggest?

thanks, and sorry for what must be the ultimate newbie question.
-sj.
 

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None of mine will allow <60 day transfers, usually they go though around 65 days, they claim it is an ICANN policy.

You'll have to wait, IMO (I have a few I have to wait on, too).
 

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ok, thanks for replying so quickly. yep, mine is 60 days too -not sure why I thought it was 3 months..
 

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Some may say 3 months to be safe, the old C.Y.O.A. policy. I've had to wait many times, too, to get domains that I got. :( Annoying as heck, yes, thank god for DNS pointing.

*Sometimes* you might get around this by going to a different account within the same registrar, but I think someone else here might have to verify that.
 

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You cannot transfer the name to another registrar for 60 days BUT

you can 'push' the name to another person's account at the SAME registrar at any time.

This is why many of us have an account at nearly each and every registrar.

Hope this helps.
 

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Agreed. You can push to the same register into a different account any time after registration.
 

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awesome, that's a good little tip, thanks :D

so would you suggest I list the domain for sale now (in the appropriate thread) or leave it for the 60 days?
 

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List it whenever you want to sell it, so now.
 

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Doesn't the 60 days have something to do with the 'money back' thing (which still exists I guess?) where you could get a refund for that domain (and the rightfull new owner has no domain anymore). ..
 

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I think that's only 5 days for "tasting".
 
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