Transferring an existing domain entails switching the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a default 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 attempt to take your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature 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 give you full authority over your domains. You’ll see all domains 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 tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking once more – the procedure 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 instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the details that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domain registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can start the domain transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.