If I post something on topic, let's see if anyone knowledgeable is
still reading.

As you know, speculators have been sitting on any useful two-word domain
name in .org for years. A two-word domain with the name of my organization
had been registered by someone who had pointed it to a Web site at one
time but hasn't used it for anything recently. One year I noticed that
he failed to renew it on time. I set up an account at GoDaddy to bid on
it when it became available. Unforunately he redeemed it, then set it
to auto-renew every year subsequently.

I maintained the GoDaddy account just in case.

Recently, I found some old email correspondence in which a member of my
board had registered an appropriate two-word domain name in early days,
but never set up a Web site. He transferred registration to a related organization which has half a dozen domain names. I don't know if they
had ever used the name in question but they weren't using it now
and tried to transfer it to us Monday.

Once before, I'd triggered the 60 day lock by changing contact information. Now, one of the codes is sent to the administrative contact, so that should
be changed before transferring the domain name to a different registrar,
but it doesn't have to be.

To avoid this, I read through all the help text at GoDaddy and called
them for instructions. In my first phone call, I was told that the administrative contact could be changed but if any of the other contacts
are changed, the domain is locked at the current registrar for 60 days and cannot be moved.

The Webmaster didn't touch the other contacts, just the administrative
contact. He changed all the contact information in the administrative
contact, not just the email address. That action triggered the 60 day lock.
I got the bad news from GoDaddy today.

The losing registrar is Google Domains. Google does everything it can
to hide contact information. I don't know how to contact them. As the
Webmaster is still the Registrant contact which is superior to the administrative contact, he can inform Google Domains that there is
no dispute and that the domain is being transferred to a related
organization.

Can anyone spot contact information on Google Domains help pages that
I missed?

In the meantime, I've read through ICANN policies and I cannot find
anything that says explicitly that a 60 day lock must be triggered
if contact information is changed.

Does anyone have a correct citation?

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