Delete Domain after Transfer-in

dordomai said:

I believe that some registrars do not allow the immediate deletion of the domain.

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And you believe correctly.

Once a registrar deletes a domain name especially upon request, there's no turning back.

Why not just delete it at the losing registrar?

if you delete domain from A, it can't be transferred to B.

IMO.

Some registrars allow you X amount of days to recover a self-deleted name. Otherwise say, bye bye.

ramkumaritrvs said:

if you delete domain from A, it can't be transferred to B.

IMO.

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Yeah, but you won't incur a transfer fee in the process. I don't see the point of transferring from A to B, just so you can delete it on B. Or am I missing something?

stub said:

Yeah, but you won't incur a transfer fee in the process. I don't see the point of transferring from A to B, just so you can delete it on B. Or am I missing something?

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yes you are correct. I don't necessarily intend to do that as there would be nothing to gain from that. It could happen that you just moved a domain from an other registrar and decide to delete it shortly afterwards.

To give an example:

I buy a domain at an auction or dropcatch it(with an API for example) and transfer it to another registrar. (not so unlikely scenario). Then i find out there is an issue with the domain (e.g trademark, domain was involved in something illegal etc.) and i decide the domain is not worth the trouble and want to delete it.

So i wanted to know how registrars handle deletion requests that occur briefly after a domain was transferred to them. Is there some kind of 60 day lock or something like that?

There may be grace delete periods for x number of days but you can always explain the situation to your registrar's support and they may process the deletion for you. That's what I would do if I couldn't delete something manually but needed an urgent deletion. You may or may not loose the transfer fees though.