Transferring an active domain involves changing the domain name registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name 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 lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is 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 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 the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain registered through us is remarkably easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared website hosting services, and will take literally 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 registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain’s present status. Click once again and you will change its status. The update will propagate immediately without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can initiate the transfer process straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just a couple of mouse clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can start the transfer right away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.