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Are there other domains hard-locked at the registry level? I haven't heard of this behavior before.

• CydeWeys 6y ago
  Yes, there are many such registry-locked domains. Verisign and most other TLD operators sell it as a service. More info: https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-registry-products/registry-lock/index.xhtml https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/does-your-domain-have-a-registry-lock/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/does-your-domain-have-a-... It's a recommended best-practice for high-value sites, which the main website of any Fortune 500 company certainly falls under.
  • JMTQp8lwXL 6y ago
    Oh, this is available to anyone with a .com using a major registrar. I had misunderstood this to be some special feature only available to the domains that make up massive amounts of internet traffic like google.com.
    • CydeWeys 6y ago
      There is likely to be even more scrutiny placed on any changes to domain names that employees of Verisign immediately recognize, such as "google.com". I imagine that would have to go through a very high level person at Verisign. It's in everyone's vested best interests here to not screw up something so visible as that.