Transferring an active domain entails changing the registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to snatch your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

If you buy a website hosting from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just several clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a small padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it away, you will just have to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing your domain names with us is amazingly easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domains registered through us using the exact same Control Panel via which you will administer your web hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domain names will be shown alphabetically and on the right you’ll notice a padlock icon in case the given domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click on the icon, you’ll see whether the specific domain name is locked or not and you’ll be able to modify this status by clicking once again. The status will be updated instantaneously and you’ll be able to initiate the domain transfer without having to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup sites or for us to do anything on our end.