Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try 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 Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting service from our company, you will exert complete control over your domains through our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking & unlocking any of the domains registered through our company, provided that the specific generic or country-code domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock sign that you will notice next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will enable you to change that status. In case you wish to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, you can start the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect instantaneously, no propagation time or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just have to follow the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain ready with only a few mouse clicks. All your domain name registrations will be displayed 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’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can start the domain name transfer process straight away. The update will propagate momentarily, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.