Transferring an already registered domain name entails switching the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to steal 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 feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared web hosting plan that we offer, will grant you complete control over your domains. You’ll find all domains registered through our company neatly displayed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a mini padlock icon on their right. By clicking the icon, you can find out if the specific domain is locked or unlocked and you can change the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not need to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect instantaneously, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such sites to update the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you would like to transfer a domain name from our company to another registrar company and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain ready with only several mouse clicks. All your domains will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will see a padlock icon. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can alter the status by clicking once more. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will need to do, so you can go ahead with the domain transfer straight away. The change will take effect instantaneously, so you will not need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.