Transferring an active domain name involves switching the registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, 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 safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you order a Linux web hosting from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a tiny padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just need to click once again and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the exact same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different admin dashboards.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Managing your domains with us is unbelievably easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the same Control Panel via which you will manage your hosting account. For your convenience, the domains will be displayed alphabetically and on the right you will see a padlock icon in case the given domain supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you’ll find out if the given domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to update this status by clicking once more. The status will be updated immediately and you’ll be able to start the domain transfer procedure without having to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.