Transferring an already registered domain involves changing the company that provides the domain name registration service, so after the transfer, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record updates through the new domain registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most generic and country-code domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different steps, but in the general case transferring a domain entails several necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The domain lock is a security feature, which is being adopted by more and more registry operators. It is a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to initiate a transfer process, so nobody can even try to steal 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 domain names that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared website hosting from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us using our Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to unlock any of them with just several mouse clicks. All registrations will be displayed in alphabetical order in the Domain Manager section of the Control Panel and for each one of them you will see a tiny padlock logo. Clicking it will show you the current security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it away, you will just have to click for the second time and you will be all set. Locking a domain name is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the exact same location as the hosting account itself, you won’t have to sign in and out of different admin dashboards.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domains with us is very easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. If you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to manage the domain names registered through us using the very same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. For your convenience’s sake, the domains will be displayed alphabetically and on the right you’ll see a padlock-like icon if the particular domain name supports the registrar lock feature. If you click the icon, you will see if the particular domain is locked or not and you’ll be able to alter this status by clicking once more. The status will be changed instantaneously and you will be able to initiate the domain name transfer process without having to wait for the update to appear on WHOIS lookup sites or for our company to do anything on our end.