Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to snatch your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through us is truly easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our cloud hosting service, and will require literally two clicks. All your domain names will be shown in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you will notice the domain name’s present status. Click once more and you will alter its status. The change will propagate instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can initiate the transfer procedure straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only a few clicks. All your domain registrations will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can continue with the domain transfer process right away. The change will propagate instantaneously, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.