Transferring an active domain involves changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to snatch your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every web hosting package that we offer, will grant you complete control over your domain names. You’ll see all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You will not need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you have registered a domain name through us and you’d like to transfer it, you can easily unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be listed alphabetically in your account and you will notice a tiny padlock icon on the right side of each domain there, on the condition that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain transfer procedure straight away without waiting for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate momentarily without you or us having to do anything else.