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registrar locks for a garage
28 Jul 2026
How a garage deals with registrar locks — and what usually goes wrong.
The problem: a 404 that still returns 200. This is where registrar locks breaks for a garage.
When we reviewed registrar locks, the DNS panel showed a 404 that still returns 200. Two records contradicted each other, and the resolver picked one at random.
We document registrar locks in a shared spreadsheet. It is not glamorous, but a garage can open it on their phone at midnight if something breaks.
HTTPS is table stakes, but registrar locks is where trust actually lives for a garage. A padlock with a misconfigured record behind it is decoration, not security.
Most of the damage we see in registrar locks comes from doing too much. A single correct record beats three that were supposed to be clever.
We run a monthly diff on DNS for a garage. If a record changes and nobody in the team made the change, we get an alert. a 404 that still returns 200 was caught this way last quarter.
When we onboard a garage, the first thing we check is registrar locks. It tells us more about the previous provider than any sales call.
The fix was to delete the old entry, wait for TTL to expire, and re-add registrar locks with the correct value. We scheduled it for 3 AM so nobody lost traffic.
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