Transferring an active domain name involves changing the company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most generic and country-code Top-Level Domain extensions. Certain country-code extensions are more specific and entail different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a security feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It’s a default feature supported by all generic TLDs. If a domain is locked, it will not be possible to initiate a transfer procedure, so no one can even attempt to snatch your domain. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domain names that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Website Hosting

Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be achieved through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our cloud website hosting plans, and will require literally two clicks. All your domain names will be listed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will see a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you will see the domain name’s present status. Click once more and you will change its status. The change will take effect momentarily without the need for you or for us to do anything else for the status to be ‘refreshed’ on WHOIS lookup sites, so you can proceed with the transfer straight away.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you have registered a domain through our company and you’d like to transfer it away, you can easily unlock it via the very same Hepsia Control Panel, which you use to manage your semi-dedicated server account. All domain registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in your account and you’ll notice a tiny padlock icon on the right side of each domain name there, provided that its extension supports the registrar lock option. You can see if the domain name is locked or not by clicking on this icon and modify the current status by clicking on it again. You can then go ahead and initiate the transfer process right away without waiting for the status to change on WHOIS lookup websites, as the update will take effect instantly without you or us having to do anything else.