domain locking-- got lock?

[Strata R. Chalup]

Apologies if this is old news to some of you-- apparently changed back 
in July, with (http://www.icann.org/transfers/policy-12jul04.htm) 
ICANN's new domain transfer policy, but I'm just hearing about it.

The previous policy allowed your registrar to request confirmation from 
the domain holder before performing a transfer.  Now, apparently, 
transfer requests *must* be honored unless the domain is "locked".    I 
don't think there's been a rash of spurious transfers or domain hijacks 
yet, but assuredly it will happen, especially when the spammers figure 
out that hijacking an interesting domain or three could generate scads 
of web hits.  To say nothing of the spamming possibilities.  Bleah.

If you, like me, tend to pay your registrar multiple years in advance 
and not really interact with them much otherwise, you might want to 
visit their website and check for a "lock domains" feature on their 
domain management page, or send mail to their support folks.

cheers,
Strata

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