Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to steal your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

If you buy a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a small padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you will just have to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not need to sign in and out of different platforms.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just a few clicks. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain transfer right away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.