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.