Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates 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 procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option 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 manage all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only several mouse clicks. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a small padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just have to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to log in and out of different admin panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a couple of mouse clicks. All your domain registrations will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can start the domain transfer straight away. The update will take effect immediately, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.