How to transfer domain from Yahoo! account?

Hi,
As you may know that start from July 2008, Yahoo! will increase domain renewal price to be $34.95/yr. This is realy closing domain business price. Many domainers are trasferring their domain names to other registrar to advoice this crazy increase.
But many domainers got problem with Yahoo! domain transfer, some person event spend weeks to understand how to transfer domains out of Yahoo!. I personally got the same problem and finally I found the instrauction from my domain registrar (LuckyRegister.com). Here are the sump up info:

To transfer a domain name from Yahoo, you need the following information:

A Domain status: Locked or Active

B Administrative contact for registed domain

C Authorization or EPP code (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info TLDS only)

*** If you do not have that information on hand, you can abtain it from Yahoo. The domain transfer can only succeed if the domain is unlocked, the administrative email address is valid and the correct authorization code is provided (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info TLDS only)




A - Unlocking domain!
1 Log in to your Business Control Panel at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/index.php

2 Click the Domain Control Panel hyperlink for the domain you want to unlock.

3 Click Edit Domain Locking

4 Click Unlock Domain

Note It may take up to 24 hours before our system identifies and reconizes the status change.


B - Administrative contact!
The administrative contacts is one of the four contacts listed in Yahoo! (the "unlock" procedure is described above). 24 hours should elapse before the administrative contact responds to the transfer approval email message, as it can take up to 24 hours before our system recognizes changes to the3 domain's Whois information.

Any attempt to respond to the transfer approval message before the status change has been completed will result in transfer failure. You will receive an instant email notification of the failed transfer.

To change the administrative contact for your domain: 1 Log in to your Business Control Panel at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/index.php

2 Click the Domain Control Panel hyperlink for the domain you want to access.

3 Click View/Edit Your Domain Registration hyperlink.

4 On the Domain Registration Information page, click Edit

5 Edit your administrative contact.
Note It may take up to 24 hours before our system identifies and reconizes the status change.





C - Authorization code from Yahoo!
to transfer a .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info domain you will need an authorization code. An authorization code is a unique code assigned by registrars to .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info domain names at the time of domain registration.

Note
Website Service customers must contact Yahoo! at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/contactus/ to obtain their authorization code

To Obtain Your Authorization Code from Yahoo!

1 Log in to your Business Control Panel at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/index.php

2 Click the Domain Control Panel hyperlink for the domain you want to access.

3 Click View Authorization Code.



D - Transferring Domain

Assuming that the above issues are in order, the domain transfer process thus:

To transfer a domain to LuckyRegister.com:

1 Advise the domain's administrative contact that the domain name is being transferred.

2 We will e-mail the administrative contact by the next business day with instructions on how to approve the domain transfer.

3 Once the administrative contact has approved the domain transfer, we will send a transfer request to the registry. If the domain's administrative contact does not have access to the account from which the domain transfer request was purchased, the recipient of the email request must forward the Transaction ID and Security Code to someone who does. These code must be entered on the Pending Domain Transfer screen in your account in order to approve the transfer. Once the Transaction ID and Security Code are successfully entered, we will request the transfer at the registry. The registrar of record does not deny the transfer, the transfer is automaticallly approved.

4 The registry will contact Yahoo! via email.

5 Yahoo! will send an acceptance or rejection notice to the registry. If the registrar fails to deny the transfer within 5 days, the registry will move the domain registration to this registar.

6 The registry will notify us of the acceptance or rejection.

7 We will inform you via e-mail that the transefr is complete.



Should the domain transfer fail, We will notify you via email. You will resubmit your transfer request if the trasfer fails. However, to ensure that the information listed in your transfer request remains valid, you will have 30 days from the time of your purchase to complete the domain transfer.


For more information for domain transfer, Please visit LuckyRegister for more info