Transferring an active domain name entails changing the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail 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 safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting package that we offer, will give you full command over your domains. You’ll find all domains registered through our company neatly 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 on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the particular domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking once again – the process is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the details that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Locking or unlocking any domain registered through our company is unbelievably easy and can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel – the one via which you administer your semi-dedicated server. You’ll find all your domain names in the Domain Manager section and those whose extensions support the registrar lock feature will have a padlock-like icon on their right. You can unlock any domain by clicking on its icon and since the change will take effect straight away, you will be able to proceed with the domain name transfer process without having to wait for the registrar lock status to be changed on WHOIS sites. If you reconsider your decision and decide not to transfer the domain name away from us, locking it once again will be just as simple and will not require more than a couple of clicks of the mouse in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel.