GoDaddy accused of thwarting domain transfers

Jason Snell for Macworld:

In a post on its blog, fellow domain registrar Namecheap reports that customers trying to transfer their domains away from GoDaddy are being delayed. The post accuses GoDaddy of “returning incomplete WHOIS information” as a part of the transfer process, a practice which is against the rules of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the process manager for the domain-name system.

I transferred a domain from GoDaddy last week and it went just fine. However, after losing more than 72,000 in five days, things may have changed.