Transferring an active domain entails switching the domain registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

With a shared web hosting from our company, you will have absolute authority over your domains through our custom-created Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking and unlocking any of the domain names registered here, as long as the specific top-level domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock icon that you will notice next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will permit you to alter that status. If you want to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, you can start the procedure momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your 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 have to follow the very same steps.

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 ready with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain names 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 given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock 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 for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer process straight away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.