Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the 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 modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s 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 process, so no one can even try to snatch your domain. 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 feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is very easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our hosting, and will require exactly two clicks. All your domains will be shown alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will see a padlock-like logo. Click on it once and you’ll notice the current status of the domain name. Click once more and you will alter its status. The update will propagate instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can continue with the transfer right away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Administering your domains with our company is unbelievably easy and the registrar lock feature is not an exception. If you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domain names registered through our company using the same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed alphabetically and on the right you will notice a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click on the icon, you’ll find out if the given domain name is locked or not and you’ll be able to update this status by clicking again. The status will be updated instantaneously and you’ll be able to initiate the transfer procedure without having to wait for the change to be displayed on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.