Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to take your domain. The domain 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 feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud hosting service from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a small padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you will just have to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the exact same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different tools.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only a couple of clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can go ahead with the transfer procedure right away. The update will propagate momentarily, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.