Transferring an existing domain entails switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to register 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 Shared Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is extremely easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our shared website hosting, and will require literally two clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be displayed alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like sign. Click on it once and you’ll see the domain’s current status. Click once again 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 ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can initiate the transfer procedure right away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only several clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can start the transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate immediately, so you will not need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.