Transferring an already registered domain involves switching the domain registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name 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

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is astonishingly easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our shared hosting services, and will take exactly two mouse clicks. All your domain names will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will see the domain name’s current status. Click once more and you will change its status. The update will take effect instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can go ahead with the transfer procedure right away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only a few mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can start the domain name transfer process straight away. The update will take effect immediately, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.