Transferring an active domain involves changing the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain name. The 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 Cloud Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud hosting from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only several clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a small padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it away, you’ll just have to click once more and you’ll be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are managed in the same place as the hosting account itself, you will not have to log in and out of different user interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

Locking or unlocking any domain name registered through our company is very easy and can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel – the one via which you manage your semi-dedicated server. You’ll see all your domain names in the Registered Domains section and the ones whose extensions support the registrar lock feature will have a padlock-like icon on their right. You can unlock any domain by clicking on its icon and since the update will take effect momentarily, you’ll be able to start the domain name transfer process without waiting for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup sites. If you change your mind and decide not to transfer the domain name away from our company, locking it again will be just as easy and will not require more than several clicks of the mouse in your Control Panel.