Transferring an active domain name entails changing the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few 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 domain name registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer process, so nobody can even try to steal your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is astonishingly easy. This can be accomplished through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our website hosting, and will take exactly two clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you will see the domain’s present status. Click once again and you will change its status. The update will take effect immediately without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can continue with the transfer procedure right away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain through us and you’d like to transfer it away, you can quickly 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 shown alphabetically in your account and you will see a tiny padlock-like icon on the right side of each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and update the current status by clicking on it again. You can then go ahead and initiate the domain name transfer procedure straight away without the need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will take effect immediately without you or us having to do anything else.