Transferring an already registered domain name involves switching the domain name registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a small padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it, you will just have to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin dashboards.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you would like to transfer a domain name 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 just several mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer procedure right away. The update will propagate instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.