Transferring an existing domain entails switching the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain name. The lock can be removed 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 when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

With a shared website hosting from our company, you’ll exert absolute command over your domain names through our custom Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you would like, including locking & unlocking any of the domain names registered through us, on the condition that the particular generic or country-code TLD extension supports this option. Clicking the padlock sign that you will notice next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once again will permit you to change that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain to another domain name registrar, you can start the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation time or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you will just have to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only a few clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock option, you will 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 update the status by clicking again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can start the transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate instantly, so you won’t need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.