Transferring an active domain entails switching the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting package that we offer, will grant you full command over your domain names. You will see all domains registered through us neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a mini padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking again – the process is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect instantaneously, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the details that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you have registered a domain name through our company and you’d like to transfer it, you can easily unlock it via the exact same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be shown in alphabetical order in your account and you will see a tiny padlock icon on the right side of each domain there, as long as its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the current status by clicking on it once more. You can then proceed and initiate the domain transfer straight away without the need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will propagate instantly without you or us having to do anything else.