Transferring an active domain name entails switching the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few 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 organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to take your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

If you buy a cloud plan from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you will just need to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the very same place as the hosting account itself, you will not need to sign in and out of different admin consoles.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Locking or unlocking any domain name registered through our company is astonishingly easy and can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel – the one via which you manage your semi-dedicated server. You will find all your domain names in the Domain Manager section and those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a padlock-like icon next to them. You can unlock any domain by clicking on its icon and since the change will propagate momentarily, you will be able to go ahead with the domain name transfer process without the need to wait for the lock status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites. If you reconsider your decision and opt not to transfer the domain name away from our company, locking it again will be just as easy and will not take more than several clicks of the mouse in your Control Panel.