Transferring an active domain name entails changing the registrar company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock symbol. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you’ll just have to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain name through us and you wish to transfer it, you can easily unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll see a tiny padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and start the transfer procedure straight away without needing to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites, as the change will propagate instantly without you or us having to do anything else.