Transferring an already registered domain name involves switching the registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register 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 domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every website hosting package that we offer, will give you complete control over your domain names. You will find all domain names registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the particular domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking again – the process is as simple as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the details that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only a couple of mouse clicks. All your domain registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify 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 transfer right away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.