Transferring an existing domain involves changing the domain registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared web hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a mini padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you’ll just have to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different user interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with our company is astonishingly easy and the registrar lock feature is not an exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your hosting account. For your convenience, the domain names will be shown in alphabetical order and on the right you will see a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you will find out whether the given domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to alter this status by clicking once again. The status will be updated immediately and you’ll be able to initiate the transfer process without the need to wait for the update to be displayed on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.