Transferring an already registered domain name involves switching the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to take your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared website hosting plan that we offer, will give you absolute command over your domain names. You’ll find all domains registered through our company conveniently displayed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon next to them. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking once more – the process is as simple as that. You won’t need to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect momentarily, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the info that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with our company is truly easy and the registrar lock feature 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 very same Control Panel via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domain names will be shown alphabetically and on the right you’ll notice a padlock-like icon if the particular domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you’ll see whether the specific domain name is locked or not and you’ll be able to change this status by clicking once again. The status will be updated straight away and you will be able to initiate the domain transfer without the need to wait for the update to be displayed on WHOIS lookup websites or for us to do anything on our end.