Transferring an existing domain involves switching the domain name registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves 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 domain name registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to register your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

With a Linux web hosting from us, you’ll have complete command over your domain names through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you would like, including locking/unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, provided that the particular domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock symbol that you’ll see next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once more will permit you to update that status. If you would like to transfer a domain name to another registrar, you can start the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you will just have to follow the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you want to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only a few clicks. All your domain registrations will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will see 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 once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate instantly, so you won’t have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites.