Transferring an active domain entails switching the domain name registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you get a Linux website hosting from our company, you will be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a couple of clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a small padlock symbol. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you would like to transfer it, you’ll just have to click once more and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different systems.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve registered a domain through our company and you want to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you will notice a small padlock icon on the right side of each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it again. You can then proceed and start the domain transfer straight away without having to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.