Transferring an existing domain involves switching the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, 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 domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Website Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our Linux website hosting, and will take literally two clicks. All your domains will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you will see a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you’ll notice the domain’s present status. Click once more and you’ll change its status. The change will take effect immediately without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can go ahead with the transfer procedure straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you’ve registered a domain through our company and you want to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it via the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you will notice a small padlock-like icon next to each domain name there, as long as its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the current status by clicking on it once again. You can then proceed and start the domain name transfer process right away without waiting for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will propagate momentarily without you or us having to do anything else.