Transferring an active domain entails changing the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. 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 generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

If you order a Linux cloud web hosting service from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the 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 name is locked and you wish to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the exact same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different Control Panel tools.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve registered a domain through us and you would like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be displayed alphabetically in your account and you’ll see a mini padlock icon next to each domain there, provided that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the current status by clicking on it again. You can then continue and initiate the domain name transfer process right away without needing to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate immediately without you or us having to do anything else.