Possibly.
InterNIC has implemented a security measure, which makes sure that changes to your domain name are made by an authorised party (or so they think).
Here's how it works.
Anyone who has signed up to be an Admin, Tech, or Billing Contact on a domain registration has a "handle," which is an id number. I can go to the form that lets me change my handle information and choose options that give me power over every domain name in which my handle appears as a contact. The "Notification Info" section lets me set my preferred options for "use" (when a registration associated with me is used) and "update" (when a registration associated with me is updated or changed). My choices for each are "before," "after," and "not-care." "After," the default value, means that I am sent an email just letting me know that a domain name associated with me has made a change. "Not-care" means if a change is made to a domain name I'm associated with, it won't notify me... because I don't care! "Before" is the one that gives power. If I'm set to "before" in the "update" section, before a change can be made to a domain name's registration, an email is sent to me where I can authorise or reject that change. These settings are normally private, so you have no way (without asking) of knowing if your hosting company has sent their handle to "before-update." Again, by including a handle with "before-update" in your domain name registration, that person now has rights in changing or denying a change to your registration.
Advantage: If you are in your domain name registration, and especially if you are NOT listed as the Admin Contact, you will want to make sure you are set to "before-update." This means if other contacts try to make changes to your name, you have to OK those. This should keep truly yucky things from happening within your registration (assuming you're even on your own registration!).
Disadvantage: If your tech contact is your hosting copmany, for example, and they've set themselves to "before-update," that means if you want to leave them and change companies, they can actually block that change by replying "no" to the authorisation request email they will get. Not every company will block a change that would drop them out of the picture, but you can see how bad this can be if you happen to have a malicious and evil hosting company that just doesn't want to let you go (despite your interest in leaving). Yes, there are often ways to go around such a person/business, but who wants to end up with that situation?!
You can modify your contact handle here. You will need to know your handle, so if you don't know that, try a search for your last name via WHOIS, and make a note of your handle.
InterNIC has implemented a security measure, which makes sure that changes to your domain name are made by an authorised party (or so they think).
Here's how it works.
Anyone who has signed up to be an Admin, Tech, or Billing Contact on a domain registration has a "handle," which is an id number. I can go to the form that lets me change my handle information and choose options that give me power over every domain name in which my handle appears as a contact. The "Notification Info" section lets me set my preferred options for "use" (when a registration associated with me is used) and "update" (when a registration associated with me is updated or changed). My choices for each are "before," "after," and "not-care." "After," the default value, means that I am sent an email just letting me know that a domain name associated with me has made a change. "Not-care" means if a change is made to a domain name I'm associated with, it won't notify me... because I don't care! "Before" is the one that gives power. If I'm set to "before" in the "update" section, before a change can be made to a domain name's registration, an email is sent to me where I can authorise or reject that change. These settings are normally private, so you have no way (without asking) of knowing if your hosting company has sent their handle to "before-update." Again, by including a handle with "before-update" in your domain name registration, that person now has rights in changing or denying a change to your registration.
Advantage: If you are in your domain name registration, and especially if you are NOT listed as the Admin Contact, you will want to make sure you are set to "before-update." This means if other contacts try to make changes to your name, you have to OK those. This should keep truly yucky things from happening within your registration (assuming you're even on your own registration!).
Disadvantage: If your tech contact is your hosting copmany, for example, and they've set themselves to "before-update," that means if you want to leave them and change companies, they can actually block that change by replying "no" to the authorisation request email they will get. Not every company will block a change that would drop them out of the picture, but you can see how bad this can be if you happen to have a malicious and evil hosting company that just doesn't want to let you go (despite your interest in leaving). Yes, there are often ways to go around such a person/business, but who wants to end up with that situation?!
You can modify your contact handle here. You will need to know your handle, so if you don't know that, try a search for your last name via WHOIS, and make a note of your handle.
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