Transferring an existing domain involves changing the registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

If you get a hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a mini padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you will just have to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the very same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different admin interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just several clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can continue with the transfer process straight away. The change will take effect immediately, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.