Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the domain registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is exceptionally easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our Linux shared website hosting, and will require literally two clicks. All your domains will be shown in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like sign. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain name’s current status. Click once again and you will alter its status. The change will propagate momentarily without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can proceed with the transfer procedure straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just a couple of clicks. All your domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will administer your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice 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 once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can start the transfer right away. The change will propagate immediately, so you will not have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.