Transferring an active domain involves switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer process is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

If you get a Linux shared website hosting from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domain names registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with just a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a small padlock symbol. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you would like to transfer it, you’ll just have to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are administered in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different Control Panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with us is truly easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. In case you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to administer the domain names registered through our company using the exact same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. For your convenience, the domain names will be listed alphabetically and on the right-hand side you’ll notice a padlock icon in case the given domain supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you’ll see whether the given domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to change this status by clicking once more. The status will be updated right away and you’ll be able to start the domain transfer process without having to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup websites or for us to do anything on our end.