Transferring an already registered domain name entails switching the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process 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 involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to register your domain. 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every website hosting plan that we offer, will grant you full command over your domain names. You’ll see all domain names registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a mini padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can alter the current status by clicking once again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t have to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a few mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll manage your hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer process right away. The change will propagate instantly, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.