Transferring an active domain entails switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment 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 full control over your domain names. You’ll see all domain names registered through us neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the present 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 immediately, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the information that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just a few clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will administer your hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll 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 we will need to do, so you can continue with the transfer straight away. The change will propagate instantly, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.