Transferring an active domain name entails changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to steal your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every website hosting plan that we offer, will give you complete authority over your domain names. You will see all domain names registered through us conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the particular domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking again – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve registered a domain name through us and you’d like to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it via the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock icon next to each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the current status by clicking on it again. You can then proceed and initiate the domain transfer procedure straight 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.