Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, 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 is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get a Linux cloud website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. 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 icon. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different admin interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have registered a domain through our company and you would like to transfer it, you can easily unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a small padlock icon next to each domain there, provided that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. 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 again. You can then proceed and start the transfer procedure straight away without the need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will take effect instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.