Transferring an existing domain entails changing the registrar that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most generic and country-code top-level domain name extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more registry organizations. It is a standard 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 steal your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

If you purchase a Linux cloud hosting from our company, you will be able to manage all domain names registered through us via our Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of mouse clicks. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll see a mini padlock logo. Clicking it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you’d like to transfer it away, you will just need to click for the second time and that’s it. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domain names are administered in the exact same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to log in and out of different user interfaces.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with our company is exceptionally easy and the registrar lock feature makes no exception. If you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domains registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side you’ll see a padlock icon in case the particular domain supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you will find out if the specific domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to modify this status by clicking again. The status will be updated right away and you’ll be able to initiate the domain transfer process without the need to wait for the change to be displayed on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.