Transferring an existing domain entails changing the registrar company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to register your domain name. The lock can be annulled 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting from our company, you’ll exert total control over your domains through our in-house created Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking and unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, on the condition that the specific Top-Level Domain extension supports this option. Clicking on the padlock icon that you’ll notice next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will permit you to update that status. In case you would like to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, you can initiate the procedure immediately. Since unlocking a domain name through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to follow the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only several clicks of the mouse. All your domains 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 specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update 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 go ahead with the domain transfer straight away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.