Transferring an existing domain name involves 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 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 necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to take your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you absolute command over your domain names. You’ll see all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the current status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the info that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just a few mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can proceed with the domain transfer straight away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.