Transferring an already registered domain name involves switching the registrar company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud website hosting plan that we offer, will give you total command over your domain names. You’ll see all domain names registered through us neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking again – the procedure is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect immediately, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the details that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have registered a domain through us and you’d like to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the present status by clicking on it again. You can then continue and start the domain transfer procedure straight away without having to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will take effect instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.