Quote Originally Posted by onimity View Post
when you registered the domain, you made it yours for whatever term you selected. You can legally transfer the registration to another registrar (see http://www.icann.org/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm), but registrars do limit when you can do that, i.e., in the time just before expiration. I've found it *much* easier to deal with the company that you want to transfer the domain to. A company losing business isn't as motivated to help you as a company potentially getting business.
No kidding. It took **4** phone calls and then some for Network Solutions to release MY stuff to a new registrar. Short story, I finally had to get really nasty with them as they just wouldn't do what they said they were going to do. I was warned by the company I was transferring to who interestingly enough charges much less than NS.