Transferring an existing domain involves changing the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you buy a web hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a tiny padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you’ll just need to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different systems.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Locking or unlocking any domain name registered through us is really easy and can be done through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel – the one via which you administer your semi-dedicated server. You’ll find all your domains in the Domain Manager section and those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a padlock-like icon on their right. You can unlock any domain by clicking on its icon and since the update will take effect right away, you will be able to go ahead with the transfer without having to wait for the lock status to be changed on WHOIS websites. If you reconsider your decision and decide not to transfer the domain name away from our company, locking it again will be just as easy and will not require more than a few mouse clicks in your hosting Control Panel.