Transferring an active domain involves switching the domain registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name 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 Website Hosting

If you order a Linux website hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a small padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want to transfer it, you will just have to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same location as the web hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different admin interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing your domain names with our company is extremely easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to manage the domains registered through our company using the same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domains will be shown alphabetically and on the right you will see a padlock-like icon in case the given domain supports the registrar lock feature. If you click on the icon, you’ll find out if the given domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to alter this status by clicking once more. The status will be updated immediately and you’ll be able to initiate the domain name transfer process without having to wait for the change to appear on WHOIS lookup websites or for us to do anything on our end.