Transferring an already registered domain name entails switching the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting plan from us, you will have total authority over your domains through our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking and unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, provided that the specific domain extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock logo that you will find next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking it once again will permit you to change that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain name to another registrar company, you can start the procedure momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just need to go through the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only a few clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once more. This is 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 name transfer straight away. The change will propagate instantly, so you will not have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.