I'm getting down to my last few days with table.com.  By next week, it will belong to someone else.

A quick summary of the process, in case you've never done this before... 

In our case, Moniker is serving as escrow (included in their 15% fee).  We transfer to the domain to Moniker.  Moniker gets the money from the buyer.  Moniker transfers the domain to the buyer, and the money to the seller (The choices include check, wire transfer, or even paypal!).  Mostly, the process is very easy, but Moniker's Escrow & Transfer form is not well designed!

Most other auctions and agents offer escrow services, as well, though it's certainly possible to arrange a deal without an escrow agent, or to engage escrow services separately.

For our part, we needed to unlock the domain and get an EPP (authorization) code from the current registrar, and send that information to Moniker so they could request the transfer.  I could not figure out how to unlock domains online at networksolutions.com (though there was lots of information about how to transfer a domain to NS!), but it only took a couple of minutes on the telephone.  Remember that there are lot of protective checks built-in.  You'll have to confirm the transfer by clicking on links in at least one email, and there will be a five day waiting period, as well.  During this waiting period, as I once discovered while moving one of my domains between registrars earlier this year, you can't change DNS servers or anything, so make sure everything is good before you ok the transfer!

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