Transferring an active domain name entails changing the domain registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud web hosting plan that we offer, will grant you complete control over your domain names. You will see all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the current status by clicking once more – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You will not have to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantly, 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 have registered a domain through us and you want to transfer it away, you can quickly 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 see a tiny padlock-like icon on the right side of each domain name there, on the condition that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the current status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain name transfer process right away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the change will propagate instantly without you or us having to do anything else.