Transferring an active domain name involves switching the domain registrar that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new company. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails 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 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 procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every cloud hosting plan that we offer, will give you absolute control over your domains. You will see all domains registered through us conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with just several clicks. All your domain registrations 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 given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once more. This is 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 transfer process straight away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.