Transferring an active domain entails changing the domain name registrar that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS resource record updates through the new registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The domain lock is a safety option, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will be impossible to start a transfer procedure, so nobody can even attempt to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain name 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 Hosting

The Hepsia hosting Control Panel, which comes with each and every shared hosting plan that we offer, will grant you absolute command over your domains. You will find all domain names registered through our company neatly listed in alphabetical order in a separate section of the Control Panel. Those whose extensions support the registrar lock option will have a tiny padlock icon on their right. By clicking on the icon, you can see if the given domain is locked or unlocked and you can update the current status by clicking once again – the procedure is as simple as that. You will not have to wait for the update to take effect or for our company to do anything, as the change of the status takes effect momentarily, even if you see something different on WHOIS lookup sites. After all, it takes time for such websites to update the information that they display.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you’ve registered a domain name through us and you’d like to transfer it away, you can quickly unlock it through the same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to administer your semi-dedicated server account. All registrations will be listed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a small padlock-like icon on the right side of each domain there, as long as its generic or country-code extension supports the registrar lock feature. You can see if the domain is locked or not by clicking on this icon and change the present status by clicking on it once again. You can then proceed and start the domain transfer process straight away without the need to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites, as the change will take effect immediately without you or us having to do anything else.