Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS record updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain 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 name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain 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 Cloud Web Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud web hosting service from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock icon. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you’ll just need to click once again and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the very same location as the hosting account itself, you will not need to log in and out of different interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you’ve registered a domain name through our company and you would like to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it through the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a small padlock icon next to each domain there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then go ahead and initiate the transfer procedure right away without waiting for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will propagate immediately without you or us having to do anything else.