infinity10 opened this issue on Mar 09, 2007 · 29 posts
mrsparky posted Mon, 12 March 2007 at 8:21 AM
*don't understand this stuff very well. What does this mean on their domain whois?
Nothng to worry about.
The owner of a domain can lock it - so no one can transfer their domain.
If you want to transfer the domain or change accounts, it has to be must manually unlocked.
Basically it's been designed so no one can nick a domain name. In the past it wasn't uncommon for someone to steal and then cybersquat a domain name to force the genuine owner to pay megabucks to get it back.
Some folks would even sit and wait untl a domain had just expired, then steal it 30 seconds before the genuine owner had a chance to renew it.
Even though theres an appeals process it can take a month or too before the genuine owner got it back. If your site was your business then paying a cybersquatter a few K was the quickest way to get it back.
I've had a couple of customers caught like this. So I renew before the time is up.