Transferring an active domain involves switching the domain name registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain name. The domain 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 functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is truly easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared website hosting, and will take literally two clicks. All your domain names will be shown in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like logo. Click on it once and you’ll see the current status of the domain name. Click again and you’ll alter its status. The change will take effect instantaneously without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can continue with the transfer process straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain through our company and you would like to transfer it, you can easily unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you will see a small padlock icon next to each domain there, as long as its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the current status by clicking on it again. You can then proceed and start the domain name transfer process right away without waiting for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate momentarily without you or us having to do anything else.