Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it away, you will just need to click once again and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the exact same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different Control Panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can proceed with the transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.