Transferring an active domain entails switching the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to register 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 domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you order a Linux web hosting from our company, you’ll 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 just a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock logo. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just have to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same place as the hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different platforms.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just several clicks. All your domain name registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can proceed with the transfer process straight away. The change will propagate instantaneously, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.