Transferring an existing domain name entails switching the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

If you order a shared website hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a few mouse clicks. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a small padlock icon. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it, you will just have to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the exact same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different tools.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’d like 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 name ready with only several clicks of the mouse. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can continue with the domain name transfer process right away. The update will take effect instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.