Transferring an already registered domain name involves switching the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS entry updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific top-level domain name extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to steal your domain name. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

With a shared hosting from our company, you will exercise absolute command over your domain names through our in-house created Hepsia hosting Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking and unlocking any of the domain names registered through us, as long as the particular generic or country-code domain extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock logo that you will see next to any domain name registered in your Hepsia Control Panel will show you its present status and clicking it once again will allow you to alter that status. If you would like to transfer a domain to another registrar company, you can start the process momentarily. Since unlocking a domain through your Control Panel will take effect momentarily, no propagation interval or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just have to go through the very same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have registered a domain name through our company and you’d like to transfer it, you can quickly unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain name registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll see a mini padlock-like icon next to each domain there, provided that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock option. You can find out if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the current status by clicking on it once more. You can then proceed and start the domain transfer procedure right away without needing to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the update will take effect instantaneously without you or us having to do anything else.