Transferring an active domain name entails changing the registrar company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record updates through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure is standard with most domain name extensions. Certain 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. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer procedure, so nobody can even try to take your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

With a cloud plan from our company, you’ll have total authority over your domain names through our custom-created Hepsia Control Panel. You’ll be able to do anything you’d like, including locking/unlocking any of the domains registered through us, as long as the particular gTLD or ccTLD extension supports this feature. Clicking the padlock sign that you will see next to any domain name registered in your Control Panel will show you its current status and clicking on it once more will enable you to edit that status. If you’d like to transfer a domain to another registrar, you can start the procedure straight away. Since unlocking a domain name through your Control Panel will take effect immediately, no propagation period or any action on our end will be needed. Locking a domain is just as easy – you’ll just need to go through the exact same steps.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain name through our company and you’d like to transfer it, you can easily unlock it via the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you will see a tiny padlock icon next to each domain there, on the condition that its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and alter the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then continue and initiate the transfer procedure right away without the need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites, as the change will take effect immediately without you or us having to do anything else.