Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud hosting from our company, you will have absolute control over your domain names through our custom-created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking & unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, on the condition that the particular domain extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once more will enable you to edit that status. If you wish to transfer a domain to another domain registrar, you can start the process right away. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect instantly, no propagation time or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain is just as easy – you will just have to go through the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain name through our company and you’d like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a small padlock icon next to each domain there, on the condition that its extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the present status by clicking on it once more. You can then go ahead and start the domain transfer right away without having to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will propagate instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.