Transferring an already registered domain name 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 entry modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific 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 a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to take your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting from us, you’ll have full command over your domain names through our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking & unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, provided that the particular top-level domain name extension supports this option. Clicking on the padlock logo that you’ll find next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking on it once again will permit you to alter that status. If you would like to transfer a domain to another registrar company, you can start the procedure instantaneously. Since unlocking a domain name through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation period or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just need to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just several mouse clicks. All your domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain transfer procedure right away. The change will take effect instantly, so you will not have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.