Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to register your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is really easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux cloud packages, and will require exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will see a padlock-like logo. Click on it once and you will notice the current status of the domain name. Click for the second time and you’ll alter its status. The update will take effect instantly 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

If you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like 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 we will have to do, so you can go ahead with the transfer straight away. The change will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.