Transferring an active domain entails switching the registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud website hosting, and will require exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will notice the domain name’s present status. Click once more and you will alter its status. The change will take effect momentarily without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can initiate the transfer straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a few clicks. All your domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll administer 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 if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can initiate the domain name transfer process straight away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.