Transferring an active domain involves changing the company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry operators. It’s 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 register your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domains that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Web Hosting

With a Linux cloud web hosting from our company, you will exert total control over your domains through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered here, provided that the particular generic or country-code TLD extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock icon that you will notice next to any domain registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking it once again will permit you to update that status. In case you’d like to transfer a domain name to another registrar, you can initiate the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation period or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain name is just as easy – you will just have to complete the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a couple of clicks. All your domain names will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a specific generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you will notice a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once more. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can start the domain transfer straight away. The update will take effect momentarily, so you will not need to wait for the status to change on WHOIS lookup sites.