Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the domain registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to take your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting package that we offer, will give you full control over your domains. You’ll find all domain names registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can see if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can change the current status by clicking again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You will not have to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something else on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’d like to transfer a domain from our company to another registrar company and you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just several clicks of the mouse. All your domain names will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the same tool via which you’ll administer your hosting account. If a particular generic or country-code TLD supports the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock icon. You can find out whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking once again. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can start the transfer procedure straight away. The update will take effect instantaneously, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.