Transferring an existing domain involves changing the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. 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 process, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

With a Linux website hosting from us, you will have absolute authority over your domains through our custom-created Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered through us, as long as the particular domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock sign that you’ll find next to any domain registered in your Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking it once more will allow you to edit that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, you can start the procedure immediately. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation period or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you will just need to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’ve registered a domain name through our company and you’d like to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it through the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll see a small padlock icon next to each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the current status by clicking on it again. You can then go ahead and start the domain name transfer procedure straight away without needing to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will propagate momentarily without you or us having to do anything else.