Transferring an active domain name involves changing the domain name registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be annulled 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 Website Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is truly easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our website hosting plans, and will take exactly two mouse clicks. All your domains will be displayed alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like logo. Click on it once and you will notice the present status of the domain. Click once more and you will change its status. The change will take effect instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can proceed with the transfer straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’ve registered a domain name through us and you want to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it via the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a small padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it again. You can then go ahead and initiate the transfer right away without needing to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.