Transferring an active domain name involves changing the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process is standard with most Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to take your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name 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 Web Hosting

With a cloud web hosting from our company, you’ll have complete authority over your domain names through our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking and unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, on the condition that the particular generic or country-code TLD extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will allow you to alter that status. In case you would like to transfer a domain name to another domain registrar, you can initiate the process right away. Since unlocking a domain name through your Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation time or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you will just have to go through the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with just several clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll 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 change the status by clicking for a second time. 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 straight away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.