Transferring an active domain name entails changing the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure 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 involves a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to steal your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared web hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a mini padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you will just need to click once again and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same location as the web hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different Control Panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a few clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change 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 need to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer straight away. The update will take effect momentarily, so you will not need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.