exactly, few years ago I was thinking to bind all on domain email, thinking when I own it, I can host anywhere and seemed best option. After thinking it through, had to stick to a gmail, again. Due to the possible catastrophy scenario!
Luckily in EU, they still hardly depend on presencs validation, therefore all these sorts of errors can be resolved in couple of hours.
Not surprised. The bureaucracy, human errors, the defficient attention span to anything, not just tranafers of multidecade domains. But attention to anything. Sometimes I am also puzzled how at company x, and company y, when reaching out customer support it feels aa if they are about to make a mistake and I try to slow them down not to.
"You get what you pay for" has been true ever since capitalism was invented. Whether it be the "get a registered trademark" route or the "pay more for a competent domain registrar" route, you pay either way.
Registering a trademark won't prevent screwups such as the original posting here. What it will do is help you apply pain to the registrar until they fix the problem.
I believe now we have all but we fail at choosing.
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