Transferring an active domain name involves changing the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new registrar. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is very easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud website hosting packages, and will require literally two mouse clicks. All your domains will be shown alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the registrar lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like sign. Click on it once and you’ll see the current status of the domain. Click for the second time and you will alter its status. The change will take effect momentarily without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can proceed with the transfer procedure straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Managing your domain names with us is extremely easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domains registered through our company using the same Control Panel via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. For your convenience, the domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side you’ll see a padlock icon if the given domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you’ll see whether the particular domain name is locked or not and you will be able to update this status by clicking once again. The status will change instantaneously and you’ll be able to initiate the domain name transfer procedure without having to wait for the change to be displayed on WHOIS lookup sites or for us to do anything on our end.