Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s 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 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 domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud web hosting package that we offer, will give you absolute control over your domains. You will find all domains registered through us conveniently listed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can see if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once more – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just several clicks of the mouse. All your domain registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can start the domain transfer right away. The update will propagate instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.