Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the domain registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new company. The transfer process itself is standard with most gTLD and ccTLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to steal your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

With a cloud web hosting from our company, you’ll have complete control over your domain names through our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you would like, including locking and unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, provided that the particular generic or country-code domain extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock symbol that you will notice next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking on it once again will enable you to change that status. If you’d like to transfer a domain to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the process momentarily. Since unlocking a domain name through your Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just need to follow the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’ve registered a domain through us and you would like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it via the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in your account and you will notice a tiny padlock-like icon next to each domain there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then continue and initiate the domain name transfer process straight away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will take effect instantly without you or us having to do anything else.