Transferring an active domain name involves switching the registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name 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 Hosting

With a shared hosting plan from our company, you’ll exert complete authority over your domain names through our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking and unlocking any of the domain names registered through us, on the condition that the specific generic or country-code Top-Level Domain extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock logo that you will see next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will enable you to edit that status. If you want to transfer a domain name to another registrar company, you can initiate the procedure without any delays. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just need to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have registered a domain name through us and you would like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be shown alphabetically in your account and you’ll notice a mini padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the current status by clicking on it once again. You can then proceed and start the domain transfer right away without needing to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will take effect instantly without you or us having to do anything else.