Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared web hosting plan that we offer, will give you absolute control over your domains. You’ll see all domains registered through our company neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can modify the current status by clicking once again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t have 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 notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just a few clicks. All your domain name registrations will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can find out 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 we will have to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer straight away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.