After months of Lycos holding babspace.com hostage, it is now free. And I didn’t have to pay the $20 ransom, either. I did some digging and learned that Lycos Domains is a “partner” of Register.com, so I called them and explained how the transfer authorization code I was given was coming up invalid. Apparently Lycos deliberately keeps the authorizations local until you purchase a plan through them, so when Register.com got the request they knew nothing about it. The techie was nice enough to fix it for me. As of 9:50am was officially transferred to its new registry.

Go me!