Transferring an active domain involves switching the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain. The domain lock can be annulled 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is truly easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux cloud web hosting, and will take literally two mouse clicks. All your domain names will be shown in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will notice the present status of the domain name. Click again and you will alter its status. The update will take effect instantaneously without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can go ahead with the transfer process straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just a few mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can continue with the domain name transfer straight away. The change will take effect instantaneously, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.