Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to steal 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 Hosting

If you purchase a Linux 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 only several mouse clicks. 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 tiny padlock symbol. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not need to sign in and out of different Control Panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Administering your domain names with us is exceptionally easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domains registered through our company using the same Control Panel via which you will administer your web hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right you will see a padlock icon if the particular domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click on the icon, you’ll find out whether the specific domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to change this status by clicking once again. The status will change right away and you will be able to start the domain transfer without the need to wait for the update to appear on WHOIS lookup sites or for us to do anything on our end.