Transferring an existing domain entails changing the domain registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is astonishingly easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared services, and will take exactly two mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like sign. Click on it once and you’ll see the domain name’s present status. Click once again and you will alter its status. The change will take effect instantaneously without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can initiate the transfer process right away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just a couple of mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. This is 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 procedure right away. The change will propagate instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.