Placebo Affect

For the past two weeks I’ve been trying to move a domain from Yahoo domain registration to another registrar, but have found that Yahoo is holding my domain hostage.

The problem is that Yahoo prevents you from moving domains by sending your conformation letters to contact@myprivateregistraiton.com.

Please note, these emails are supposed to be forwarded to you; however, I’ve been trying daily for two weeks and they are not. After contacting Yahoo several times and finding that there is no intelligent at Yahoo so I tried to make my domain contact information public thinking this would allow me to the domain email contact and it did! However, Yahoo did not update the whois record even though changes were “pending”.

Yahoo will let you make the domain “public” but when you update the info, you still will have all the admin emails sent to contact@myprivateregistration.com. I must admin at first I believed Yahoo’s message that it will take approximately 24 hours for the whois record to propagate but after several attempts and 5 business days and still nothing I now know Yahoo is holding my domain hostage.

Has anyone successfully transferred a domain from Yahoo that had their private registration service? If so, please tell me how you made this happen.

I’ve been reading a lot of speculation that Microsoft will be licensing ActiveSync technology to Apple for the iPhone. Does anyone know if this is true? If so, I’m wondering if it will include the cost of Apple having to reveal their internal technology so Microsoft can basically re-brand the iPhone to a Microsoft product that runs Windows or Windows CE.

I have a Motorola Q right now and would change if Microsoft were to license ActiveSync to Apple so I can use the phone with my Exchange Server… but I worry that the ActiveSync may cause the iPhone to crash like my Q. After all the Motorola Q does run Windows.