Transferring an active domain name involves changing the domain name registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is really easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux shared hosting packages, and will take literally two mouse clicks. All your domains will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will see a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain name’s current status. Click once again and you will change 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 websites, so you can continue with the transfer process straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will 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 alter the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate immediately, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.