Transferring an already registered domain name entails switching the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to take your domain name. 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

With a Linux shared package from our company, you’ll exert total control over your domains through our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking & unlocking any of the domains registered here, as long as the specific domain name extension supports this option. Clicking the padlock symbol that you’ll see next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking it once again will permit you to edit that status. If you’d like to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar, you can start the process right away. Since unlocking a domain name through your Control Panel will take effect instantaneously, no propagation time or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just need to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only a few clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain name transfer straight away. The change will propagate immediately, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.