Transferring an active domain involves switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure 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 involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to register 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 domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you buy a Linux shared hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domains registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a tiny padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you’ll just have to click once again and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different tools.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Locking or unlocking any domain registered through us is extremely easy and can be done through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel – the one via which you administer your semi-dedicated server. You will find all your domain names in the Domain Manager section and those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a padlock icon on their right. You can unlock any domain by clicking on its icon and since the update will propagate instantaneously, you will be able to initiate the domain transfer without waiting for the lock status to be updated on WHOIS sites. If you reconsider your decision and choose not to transfer the domain away from us, locking it once again will be just as simple and will not take more than several clicks in your hosting Control Panel.