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[AhtiK]

Most of the registrars top up the time your domain has with the current registrar at the point of transfer. At least Namcheap does.

Be aware of the following 60-day restriction when planning the transfer from GoDaddy: http://support.godaddy.com/help/article/3560/transferring-do...

[duskwuff → AhtiK]

All com/net/org/info registrars do that -- it's an inherent feature of the registry.

[freejack → duskwuff]

That's actually not the case. Godaddy implements this locally, and arguably in contravention of the ICANN policy.

oBDisclaimer: I participated in the development of the original and amended ICANN transfer policy. I understand that there has been a subsequent amendment and I'm just not interested enough anymore to find out what it includes. You may in fact actually be correct in that ICANN now permits this, although I'm pretty sure that this isn't the case :-)