Transferring an existing domain involves changing the registrar company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names 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 package that we offer, will grant you complete control over your domain names. You will find all domain names registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the present status by clicking once more – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can start the domain name transfer process right away. The update will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.