That is one of the main purposes of domain locking. To prevent someone
(Hacker) from changing name servers and interrupting your traffic ;)


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek J. Balling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 8:55 AM
Subject: Locking and Unlocking Domains


> I put this out to the community for discussion:
>
> The manage.opensrs.net web interface does not seem to allow users any
> ability to actually change their lock/unlock status, presumably
> because not all resellers offer lock, and OpenSRS doesn't want to
> have folks locking domains that are with resellers that don't offer
> locking.
>
> However... the manage interface CERTAINLY SHOULD have the ability to
> UNLOCK a domain if the domain is locked.
>
> Consider the case where "reseller goes belly-up", or "reseller has a
> password-protected web interface and revokes the domain-holder's
> access". In both of those cases, the domain-holder needs to have the
> ability, independent of the reseller in question, to free up their
> domain to move it elsewhere.
>
> Also, I noticed that you can't change the nameservers under a domain
> if it is in the locked state? Was this mentioned somewhere I didn't
> notice?  I thought all locking did was prevent "domain slamming", not
> also prevent NS changes.
>
> D
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