Transferring an active domain involves switching the registrar that provides the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several necessary steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain name. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every web hosting package that we offer, will grant you absolute control over your domain names. You’ll find all domain names registered through our company neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a small padlock icon next to them. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can modify the present status by clicking once again – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect immediately, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the details that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domain names with us is very easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. In case you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domains registered through us using the same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right you’ll see a padlock-like icon if the given domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you’ll see if the given domain name is locked or not and you will be able to modify this status by clicking once again. The status will change immediately and you’ll be able to start the domain transfer process without having to wait for the update to be shown on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.