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morpheus83

4:53 am on Mar 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I had registered my domain name with an Enom reseller and also bought a dedicated server from him. However he had charged an exhorbant amount for the bandwith and setup. I have moved my server to another company. However now my ISP is not allowing me to exit his services without paying a heavy fee. I have my domain name username and password but the domain is locked how do I unlock it?

robho

5:17 am on Mar 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Assumimg this a .com or .net, the ICANN agreements don't appear to allow your current registrar to keep the lock on unless you owe them money (for the registration only - NOT other services), or it is under 60 days since registration, or various other dispute/fraud/renewal reasons - see the ICANN website for details.

If they are a reseller for a registrar (likely), you might want to see if that registrar gives you a way to move resellers.

goldleader

10:07 pm on Mar 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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It sounds like you recently registered the domain.

As the user above mentioned: you are not allowed to move your domain to another registrar until 60 days after you initially registered it.

Just wait the time out and then move the domain. Unfortunately, there really isn't anything you can do...except pay the massive amounts of money until the 60 days end.

morpheus83

4:56 am on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The domain name is 18 months old.

Dan_Norder

5:48 pm on Mar 10, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Domain lock is something you can usually turn on and off in the domain manager area of the registrar site. Lots of places turn it on by default so people can't do forged emails to try to steal them, but of course that means it's impossible to get it away unless you go through the hoops. If you are the registered owner of the name somewhere you should have logon info and then can turn it off. Most enom resellers have the standard manager page that enom gives them, and you might be able to get in via enom's name modification area.

Of course it's also conceivable that these people never gave you access purposefully, or lock it themselves even if you get access. They are supposed to play fair but some don't, in which case you should contact enom itself.

morpheus83

6:27 am on Mar 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have contacted Enom regarding the same 3 days back. But no reply from them till now.