Transferring an active domain entails changing the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be removed 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 Website Hosting

With a website hosting from us, you will exercise total control over your domains through our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking/unlocking any of the domains registered through us, provided that the specific Top-Level Domain extension supports this option. Clicking the padlock sign that you’ll find next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will enable you to modify that status. If you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar company, you can start the process instantaneously. Since unlocking a domain name through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation time or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you’ll just need to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Locking or unlocking any domain name registered through us is extremely easy and can be achieved through the Hepsia hosting Control Panel – the one via which you administer your semi-dedicated server. You’ll find all your domain names in the Domain Manager section and those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a padlock-like icon next to them. You can unlock any domain name by clicking on its icon and since the update will propagate straight away, you’ll be able to initiate the domain transfer procedure without waiting for the status to change on WHOIS sites. If you change your mind and choose not to transfer the domain away from us, locking it again will be just as simple and will not take more than several clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel.