Transferring an active domain entails changing the domain registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting from us, you’ll exercise total control over your domain names through our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, provided that the specific generic or country-code domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will allow you to alter that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar company, you can initiate the process momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation period or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you will just have to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Administering your domains with us is unbelievably easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to manage the domains registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your hosting account. For your convenience, the domains will be displayed alphabetically and on the right-hand side you will see a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you’ll see if the specific domain name is locked or not and you will be able to change this status by clicking again. The status will change instantaneously and you’ll be able to initiate the domain name transfer without needing to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.