Transferring an existing domain name entails changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process 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 name involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced 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 not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to take your domain. 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you buy a website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a mini padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you will just need to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the exact same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different tools.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve registered a domain name through our company and you want to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a tiny padlock icon next to each domain there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the current status by clicking on it again. You can then go ahead and start the transfer process straight away without waiting for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.