Transferring an existing domain entails changing the domain name registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to register your domain name. The lock can be removed 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every website hosting package that we offer, will give you full authority over your domain names. You’ll find all domains registered through us neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can see if the specific domain name is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking again – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domains will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking again. 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 straight away. The update will take effect momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.