Does Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?

2020-01-24 16:37

REGISTRY LOCK. Dijkxhoorn said one security precaution his company had not taken with their domain prior to the fraudulent transfer was a "Registry lock," a more stringent, manual process that effectively neutralizes any attempts by fraudsters to social engineer your domain registrar.

With a registry lock in place, your registrar cannot move your domain to another registrar on its own.

According to data provided by digital brand protection firm CSC, while domains created in the top three most registered top-level domains are eligible for registry locks, just 22 percent of domain names tracked in Forbes' list of the World's Largest Public Companies have secured registry locks.

While fraudsters who have hijacked your domain and/or co-opted access to your domain registrar can and usually will try to remove any DNSSEC records associated with the hijacked domain, it generally takes a few days for these updated records to be noticed and obeyed by the rest of the Internet.

Use registration features like Registry Lock that can help protect domain name records from being changed.

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