Transferring an active domain name entails changing the registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted 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 won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

With a Linux cloud hosting plan from our company, you will exercise complete control over your domain names through our custom-developed Hepsia Control Panel. You will be able to do anything you’d like, including locking & unlocking any of the domain names registered through us, on the condition that the particular gTLD or ccTLD extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock symbol that you will notice next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once more will enable you to alter that status. If you wish to transfer a domain name to another domain name registrar, you can initiate the procedure immediately. Since unlocking a domain name through your Hepsia 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’ll just have to go through the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domain names will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you’ll administer your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking once more. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate instantly, so you will not have to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.