Transferring an active domain involves switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level 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 domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

With a web hosting from us, you will exert full control over your domains through our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking & unlocking any of the domain names registered through us, on the condition that the particular TLD extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock logo that you will find next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it for the second time will permit you to change that status. In case you wish to transfer a domain name to another registrar company, you can start the procedure instantly. Since unlocking a domain name through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation time or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you will just need to follow the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar 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 domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once more. This is 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 name transfer right away. The update will propagate momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.