Transferring an already registered domain entails switching the domain name registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to register your domain name. The lock can be annulled 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 Cloud Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is extremely easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux cloud website hosting, and will take literally two clicks. All your domain names will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will notice the domain’s current status. Click again and you’ll alter its status. The update will propagate instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can initiate the transfer straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can continue with the domain name transfer procedure straight away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.