Transferring an existing domain involves switching the registrar company that handles the registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS record modifications through the new company. The transfer process itself 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 name entails several necessary procedures 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’s a standard feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it will be impossible to initiate a transfer process, so no one can even try to register your domain. The lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain name is registered in the first place and all new domains that support this option are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Shared Website Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with our Linux shared website hosting services, and will require exactly two clicks. All your domain names will be listed alphabetically in the Registered Domains section of the Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you will notice a padlock-like symbol. Click on it once and you will notice the current status of the domain name. Click once more and you’ll change its status. The update will take effect instantly without the need for you or for our company to do anything else for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites, so you can go ahead with the transfer straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you’d like to transfer a domain name from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you’ll be able to get the domain name ready with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domain name registrations will be shown in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the very same tool via which you will manage your web hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. You can see whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can update the status by clicking for a second time. That’s all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or our company will need to do, so you can proceed with the transfer process straight away. The change will propagate momentarily, so you won’t have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup websites.