Transferring an existing domain name entails changing the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name 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 Cloud Website Hosting

With a cloud website hosting plan from our company, you will have complete command over your domains through our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking & unlocking any of the domains registered through us, as long as the specific domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will permit you to change that status. If you wish to transfer a domain to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the process without any delays. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect instantly, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you will just have to go through the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

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