I've agreed to buy a domain previously owned, now what?

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Published on 2010-05-20T12:27:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 12:32 UTC
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I wanted to buy some domain already owned by someone else. So I contact it's registrar, negotiated the price and came to a deal. Everything was done via e-mail.

Now what? How the actual domain ownership is transfered to me? What information should I asked for before giving any money to the registrant?

Note: the registrar is a well known domain name registrar, accredited by the ICANN and everything.

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