HOWTO: Speed your transfer out of Internet.bs

Like a lot of people, I moved domains during NameCheap's $3.98 offer yesterday.

Most of mine came from Internet.bs, which I like as a registrar. But $10 vs. $3.98...

When you initiate the transfer, you'll get an email from IBS saying it'll be processed in 5 days. But why wait? They used to have a "approve immediately" web page, but I couldn't find it. However, you can accelerate your transfer away by using their API.

You'll need to enable the API here: https://internetbs.net/ResellerRegistrarDomainNameAPI/

Note that you'll need to specify an IP to trust...hopefully you have, oh I don't know, a LEB or something...

Then you can use a crude script like this. Note that the password is your normal password for logging into InternetBS. If you use two-factor, it doesn't play a role in API operations.

#!/bin/bash
api_key='YOUR API KEY HERE'
password='YOUR PASSWORD HERE'
domains='example1.com example2.com example3.com'

for domain in domains:

url="https://api.internet.bs/domain/TransferAway/Approve?Domain=${domain}&ApiKey=${api_key}&Password=${password}"

wget -O - $url

done

Obviously the output could be prettier, and this is not a great example of professional programming. But if you're just trying to accelerate a transfer, it works.