Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the domain name registrar that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific domain extensions. Certain 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 option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to register your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting
With a shared hosting service from our company, you’ll exercise complete command over your domains through our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you would like, including locking/unlocking any of the domain names registered through our company, on the condition that the specific generic or country-code top-level domain name extension supports this feature. Clicking on the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking on it once more will allow you to update that status. If you want to transfer a domain name to another registrar, you can initiate the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain through your Hepsia Control Panel will take effect instantaneously, no propagation period or any action on our end will be required. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just have to complete the exact same steps.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you wish to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just several mouse clicks. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a particular gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking once again. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can initiate the domain transfer procedure right away. The change will propagate instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites.