Transferring an existing domain name entails switching the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. 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 procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a small padlock sign. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you’ll just have to click once again and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to log in and out of different admin dashboards.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have registered a domain through us and you wish to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be listed alphabetically in your account and you will notice a tiny padlock icon next to each domain name there, as long as its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain transfer process straight away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.