Transferring an existing domain name involves changing the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is astonishingly easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our Linux shared hosting, and will take exactly two mouse clicks. All your domains will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like sign. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain’s current status. Click for the second time and you’ll alter its status. The change will propagate instantaneously without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can go ahead with the transfer process right away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you wish to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar 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 listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can proceed with the transfer process right away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.