Transferring an already registered domain name involves changing the company that provides the domain registration service, so after the transfer, you’ll have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record updates through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain involves a few basic steps and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being adopted by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic Top-Level Domains. If a domain is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even attempt to take your domain name. The domain lock can be annulled only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this option are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting

If you buy a Linux cloud hosting package from our company, you’ll be able to manage all domains registered through us via our Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to unlock any of them with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All registrations will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and for each one of them you’ll notice a mini padlock sign. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain is locked and you would like to transfer it, you will just need to click once more and you will be all set. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the same location as the web hosting account itself, you won’t have to log in and out of different admin dashboards.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Administering your domain names with us is really easy and the registrar lock option makes no exception. In case you’ve got a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to manage the domain names registered through us using the same Control Panel via which you’ll manage your web hosting account. For the sake of convenience, the domains will be displayed in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side you will see a padlock-like icon in case the particular domain name supports the registrar lock option. If you click the icon, you will find out whether the particular domain is locked or not and you will be able to alter this status by clicking again. The status will change straight away and you’ll be able to start the domain name transfer process without the need to wait for the change to be displayed on WHOIS lookup websites or for our company to do anything on our end.