Transferring an active domain involves switching the registrar company that provides the registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record modifications through the new company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to snatch your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this functionality are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting plan that we offer, will give you absolute authority over your domains. You will see all domains registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the domain lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can find out if the given domain name is locked or unlocked and you can alter the present status by clicking once more – the procedure is as straightforward as that. You won’t need to wait for the change to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the status change takes effect immediately, even if you notice something different on WHOIS lookup websites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domain names with us is very easy and the registrar lock option is not an exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to manage the domain names registered through our company using the very same Control Panel via which you’ll administer your hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domain names will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side you will see a padlock icon in case the particular domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click on the icon, you’ll find out if the specific domain name is locked or not and you’ll be able to modify this status by clicking once again. The status will be changed right away and you’ll be able to initiate the domain name transfer without the need to wait for the change to appear on WHOIS lookup sites or for us to do anything on our end.