Transferring an active domain name involves changing the domain name registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard 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 no one can even attempt to register your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain 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 Website Hosting
If you order a shared website hosting plan from our company, you’ll be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a few clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a small padlock sign. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you wish to transfer it, you will just have to click once more and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different admin interfaces.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you’ve registered a domain through our company 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 in alphabetical order in your account and you will see a mini padlock icon on the right side of each domain name there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the current status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and start the domain transfer process straight away without having to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will take effect momentarily without you or us having to do anything else.