Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new company. The transfer process is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails 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 registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with each and every cloud hosting package that we offer, will give you absolute authority over your domain names. You will find all domain names registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You won’t have to wait for the update 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 sites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just several clicks. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will administer your web hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can start the transfer process right away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.