Registry lock is an effective and preventive step that helps to increase the security of your domains. Certain country code top level domains and the .com and .net domains can employ these status codes.
What is an Activated Registry Lock?
The registry lock will lock your domain name or record at the registry level and prevent it from being transferred, deleted or modified by any third party. However, the domain can be renewed during the period of registry lock. In the status of registry lock, the domain will be included in the zone, provided it is assigned to at least one name server.
What is an Unactivated Registry Lock?
When the registry lock is not activated, a registrar can freely modify or delete a domain. The official registry must remove the registry lock status for the registrar to be able to modify the domain. If a domain name is in a registry lock status, server transferring, server deleting and server updating are prohibited.
Registrars themselves sometimes put locks on domain names as an additional security to avoid unauthorized transfer of domains away from their systems. More often this feature is enabled by default.
Learn about other domain status codes here.
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