Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

With a Linux shared hosting from our company, you’ll exercise complete authority over your domains through our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking and unlocking any of the domains registered through us, on the condition that the particular domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock symbol that you will notice next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it for the second time will enable you to modify that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the procedure momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect instantly, 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 very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Managing your domains with us is astonishingly easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the exact same Control Panel via which you will manage your web hosting account. For your convenience, the domain names will be displayed alphabetically and on the right you will see a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you will see whether the specific domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to alter this status by clicking again. The status will change straight away and you will be able to start the transfer process without having to wait for the update to be displayed on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.