Transferring an active domain name entails changing the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to register your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name 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 Shared Hosting
If you get a shared hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a small padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want to transfer it away, you will just need to click once again and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different admin consoles.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you have registered a domain name through us and you wish to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you will see a mini padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the current status by clicking on it again. You can then go ahead and start the domain transfer right away without having to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will take effect immediately without you or us having to do anything else.