Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the company that handles 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 top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It is 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 process, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every hosting plan that we offer, will give you full control over your domains. You’ll see all domain names registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a mini padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can see if the particular domain is locked or unlocked and you can change the current status by clicking again – the process is as simple as that. You won’t need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect immediately, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with our company is truly easy and the registrar lock feature makes no exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domains registered through us using the same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domains will be shown alphabetically and on the right-hand side you’ll see a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain supports the registrar lock feature. If you click on the icon, you’ll see if the given domain is locked or not and you will be able to modify this status by clicking again. The status will change immediately and you’ll be able to start the domain name transfer procedure without the need to wait for the update to be displayed on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.