Transferring an active domain entails changing the registrar company that handles the domain name 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 extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few 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 operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you get a website hosting service from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few 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 on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would 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 domains are administered in the exact same location as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different admin panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have registered a domain name through us and you would like to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be displayed alphabetically in your account and you’ll notice a tiny padlock-like icon on the right side of each domain name there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the current status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and start the transfer straight away without waiting for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate instantly without you or us having to do anything else.