Transferring an active domain name involves switching the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you purchase a web hosting plan from our company, you will be able to administer all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a small padlock sign. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you’ll just need to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Administering your domains with us is astonishingly easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to manage the domains registered through us using the exact same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domains will be shown in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side you’ll notice a padlock-like icon in case the given domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click on the icon, you’ll find out if the given domain is locked or not and you will be able to alter this status by clicking once more. The status will be changed immediately and you’ll be able to initiate the transfer procedure without needing to wait for the update to appear on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.