Transferring an active domain name involves changing the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting plan that we offer, will give you absolute command over your domain names. You’ll find all domain names registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the current status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect momentarily, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only several 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 will administer your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can find out 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 we will have to do, so you can initiate the domain name transfer process right away. The change will take effect immediately, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.