Transferring an active domain name involves switching the registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security 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 will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared website hosting package that we offer, will grant you complete command over your domains. You’ll see all domain names registered through our company conveniently listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the present status by clicking once more – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantly, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domains will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can proceed with the domain transfer process straight away. The update will take effect immediately, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.