Transferring an existing domain involves switching the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Some 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 lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It is 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 process, so no one can even try to steal your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared hosting plan that we offer, will grant you full authority over your domains. You’ll find all domain names registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the present status by clicking once again – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the details that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case 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 name ready with only several clicks of the mouse. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can initiate the domain name transfer straight away. The update will take effect instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.