Transferring an active domain entails changing the domain registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to snatch 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 when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is truly easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our shared hosting, and will take literally two mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown in alphabetical order in the Registered Domains section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll notice a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you will notice the current status of the domain name. Click once more and you’ll change its status. The change will propagate instantaneously without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can initiate the transfer right away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a few clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you will administer your hosting account. If a given generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will have to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer procedure right away. The change will take effect immediately, so you will not have to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.