Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the registrar company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud website hosting package that we offer, will grant you total command over your domain names. You’ll find all domains registered through our company conveniently listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can see if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking once again – the process is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantly, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the details that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain registrations will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock icon. You can see whether the domain name 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 we will need to do, so you can start the transfer right away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.