Transferring an active domain name entails changing the company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer process itself is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more domain registry organizations. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to steal your domain. The lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with each and every shared website hosting package that we offer, will grant you absolute command over your domains. You’ll see all domains registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate Control Panel section. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a small padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can change the current status by clicking once more – the process is as simple as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to propagate or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something else on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to ‘refresh’ the information that they show.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with us is amazingly easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to administer the domain names registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domain names will be displayed 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 find out if the particular domain name is locked or not and you’ll be able to alter this status by clicking again. The status will change straight away and you will be able to initiate the domain transfer process without having to wait for the update to be displayed on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.