I randomly stumbled upon this registrar, called Regery, that offers a simplified domain transfer procedure. It’s called “transfer it for me”; supposedly it’s for people that don’t want to mess with these things. However when reading how it works, it starts like this:

• select option ‘transfer domain for me’
• specify access credentials to the current registrar

Is it just me or… this is pretty effed up? No matter how tedious the process of getting a transfer code is, they shouldn’t be asking full access like this. Reminds me of Facebook asking full access to people emails.