AH refugees: ClienTransferProhibited status ?

Any AH customers fleeing the wreckage facing this issue?

I've got a .org I was trying to transfer and the transfer was held up
by a ClientTransferProhibited status on the domain name. I have no
idea how that might have gotten there as all the bills are paid. This
was orginally registered with affordabledots. I wonder if it's
because perhaps that was my master domain wit their cpanel service?
Dunno.

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Todd H.
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comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) writes:
> Any AH customers fleeing the wreckage facing this issue?
>
> I've got a .org I was trying to transfer and the transfer was held up
> by a ClientTransferProhibited status on the domain name. I have no
> idea how that might have gotten there as all the bills are paid. This
> was orginally registered with affordabledots. I wonder if it's
> because perhaps that was my master domain wit their cpanel service?
> Dunno.

(Of course I've taken it up with the clowns at my provider, just
curious if others have seen the issue. )

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And lo, Todd H. didst speak in alt.www.webmaster:

> comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) writes:
>> Any AH customers fleeing the wreckage facing this issue?
>>
>> I've got a .org I was trying to transfer and the transfer was held up
>> by a ClientTransferProhibited status on the domain name. I have no
>> idea how that might have gotten there as all the bills are paid. This
>> was orginally registered with affordabledots. I wonder if it's
>> because perhaps that was my master domain wit their cpanel service?
>> Dunno.
>
> (Of course I've taken it up with the clowns at my provider, just
> curious if others have seen the issue. )

Are you sure the domain isn't locked? Most registrars lock domains
automatically these days, whether you ask for it or not. I'm pretty sure
you'd get a message like "ClientTransferProhibited" if the domain had the
"REGISTRANT-LOCK" flag on.

Grey

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"Todd H." <comphelp@toddh.net> wrote in message
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> comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) writes:
>> Any AH customers fleeing the wreckage facing this issue?
>>
>> I've got a .org I was trying to transfer and the transfer was held
>> up
>> by a ClientTransferProhibited status on the domain name.
>
> (Of course I've taken it up with the clowns at my provider, just
> curious if others have seen the issue. )

This is one place you need to stay out of trouble. You should NEVER,
ever, HAVE your DOMAIN registered with anyone that is not a direct or
2nd tier certified registrar. On top of that, you should never have
your domain registered with the same company that is also hosting your
website. That way you have control of your domain name at all times,
even when your site provider goes down the tube or sells to someone
that doesn't do what you need. All you have to do then is get another
webhost and tell the domain registrar to change the pointers. This can
happen within 24 hours in most cases. I've been able to move a site
and have it hardly blink by leaving the old location live while it
propagates to the new provider.

Most of you can see signs of problems, so why risk losing business
when it's so easy to research who is doing a good job and switch
providers? So, you have a couple hundred invested in unused months of
service. Are you going to toss all you worked for just to try to use
that bought space while it's sinking right before your eyes?

Tom J
no expert, but I can see trouble when it starts

"Tom J" <tomj_ga@despammed.com> writes:

> This is one place you need to stay out of trouble. You should NEVER,
> ever, HAVE your DOMAIN registered with anyone that is not a direct or
> 2nd tier certified registrar.

Indeed. Lesson learned. Cus even if you completely trust the people
there today, they might sell the joint tomorrow. Hypothetically of
course.

> Most of you can see signs of problems, so why risk losing business
> when it's so easy to research who is doing a good job and switch
> providers?

Obviously, of course that's the very tack I'm attempting. :-)

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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) writes:
> comphelp@toddh.net (Todd H.) writes:
> > Any AH customers fleeing the wreckage facing this issue?
> >
> > I've got a .org I was trying to transfer and the transfer was held up
> > by a ClientTransferProhibited status on the domain name. I have no
> > idea how that might have gotten there as all the bills are paid. This
> > was orginally registered with affordabledots. I wonder if it's
> > because perhaps that was my master domain wit their cpanel service?
> > Dunno.
>
> (Of course I've taken it up with the clowns at my provider, just
> curious if others have seen the issue. )

Affordable dots new interface is broken evidently.

I finally got the status out of ClientTransferProhibited by doing a
global editing and unsetting registrar lock on the domains in
question.

This appears to be a bug in the affordabledots domain control panel
that doesn't affect .com domains. The .org domains i have in their
interface do not have the registrar locking checkbox under the usual
location. The workaround I discovered is that you can set/unset
locking via the global edit function. Either that, or independent of
whatever I've been doing myself, they actually had a tech doing
something on my 2 tickets.

Lame. But not surprising, all things considered.

Hope this helps someone flee the wreckage.

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Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/