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Originally Posted by His Infernal Majesty
Escrow.com holds the money until you confirm on their site that the transfer went through, then they release the funds.
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Escrow.com releases the money when the
buyer confirms the transfer went through not the seller. It seems a bit safer to push a domain into an account at the same registrar as Escrow.com would not have to rely on WHOIS info that has been altered and could contact the registrar to verify it was pushed from one account to another. Whether they would bother and the registrar would confirm are questionable.
The worst case is to rely soley on WHOIS info but that appears to be what they use. What could happen is the seller changes the WHOIS to what was agreed apon, then the buyer could change it to something else before Escrow has a chance to verify it has been changed, Escrow.com could then tell the seller that it does not match causing the buyer to get their money back.
As pointed out it could work the other way around but at least the WHOIS info would contain the buyers email address so the buyer could initiate and approve a transfer to gain control of it if they did it fast enough.