Transferring an active domain involves changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to steal your domain. 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 functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every website hosting package that we offer, will give you complete command over your domain names. You will see all domain names registered through us neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can see if the particular domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the current status by clicking once again – the process is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantly, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such sites to ‘refresh’ the info that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have registered a domain name through us and you would like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it via the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be displayed alphabetically in your account and you will see a mini padlock icon on the right side of each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain transfer process right away without needing to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will take effect instantly without you or us having to do anything else.