From the article: Outbound domain transfers do seem to be working
a feature that is, no doubt, being used quite a bit...
I don't have either of the registrars that I use managing anything but the registered domain. The actual DNS is either done by the ISP providing the web site stuff, or by me. Bind is NOT hard.
rndc freeze
delete the transaction file for the zone
edit the zone file using your favorite text editor (pluma, ee, nano, whatever)
rndc thaw
no problem
(also need to set up the DHCP hooks for on-demand naming by DHCP clients, but that's not hard either, using isc's DHCP server)
as for the registered domain name, no problems with either verisign or godaddy. Ok maybe I pay more, but sometimes you get what you pay for.