Domain registration

[AsmIscool]

I really did look around to find somewhere else to put this. If you find somewhere more appropriate then please move it. I tried.

Now to the question.

I was looking into an organisation that wants to deal with me and I found this in their whois.

Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT RENEW PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED

To my current knowledge this renders their account quite useless. Could anybody come up with any ideas why somebody would wish to do this to their own domain. Everything about this crowd checks out perfectly. Except that and I cannot figure it out.

[Hack]

This is just a guess, but maybe it means that any clients they pick up are not able to make those kinds of changes (but, internally, they can do whatever they wish)

[kfcSmitty]

My domain has the same thing. Do they have privacy enabled on their account so their whois information is hidden?

I assume it is a side-effect of that.

[AsmIscool]

My domain has the same thing. Do they have privacy enabled on their account so their whois information is hidden?

I assume it is a side-effect of that.

I have domain privacy with the same registrar and I don't have all that. It is beginning to look to me like they have got some real dodgy type to do their website and he has deliberately locked them out of it so they cannot go anywhere else. I think client update prohibited means I cannot even edit the site. Now he will probably want thousands for them to just get their own domain name back so I can even work on it.

Anyway I have contacted ICANN on this one and I will keep you all updated. That is if I get a reply. The contact process was painful enough.