Transferring an existing domain entails switching the company that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

If you buy a web hosting from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just a few clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you will just have to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same place as the web hosting account itself, you will not have to sign in and out of different interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Administering your domain names with our company is very easy and the registrar lock feature makes no exception. In case you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed alphabetically and on the right-hand side you’ll see a padlock icon if the particular domain supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you will see whether the given domain name is locked or not and you will be able to change this status by clicking again. The status will be changed momentarily and you’ll be able to start the domain transfer without the need to wait for the change to appear on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.