Transferring an active domain entails switching the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain. The lock can be annulled 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 Cloud Web Hosting

If you get a cloud web hosting from our company, you will be able to administer all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of mouse clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a tiny padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain is locked and you want to transfer it, you’ll just need to click for the second time and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the same place as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with just a few clicks. All your domains will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can start the transfer procedure straight away. The update will propagate immediately, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.