Transferring an already registered domain entails changing the registrar company that handles the domain registration service, so after the transfer itself, you’ll have to manage things like renewal fees or DNS modifications through the new domain name registrar. The transfer procedure is standard with most TLD extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and entail different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name involves a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain. The lock is a safety feature, which is being embraced by more and more domain registry operators. It’s a standard feature supported by all gTLDs. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer procedure, so no one can even try to snatch your domain name. 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 feature are locked by default the moment they are registered.

Registrar Lock in Shared Hosting

If you purchase a Linux shared hosting from our company, you will 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 only several clicks. All registrations will be displayed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the hosting Control Panel and for each one of them you will notice a small padlock logo. Clicking on it will show you the present security lock status. If the domain name is locked and you want to transfer it, you will just have to click once again and that’s it. Locking a domain is just as easy and since the domains are managed in the exact same place as the hosting account itself, you won’t need to sign in and out of different Control Panels.

Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with just several mouse clicks. All your domains will be listed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you’ll administer your hosting account. If a specific gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you will notice a padlock icon. You can find out if the domain is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can modify the status by clicking for a second time. This is all it takes and there will be nothing else that you or we will have to do, so you can proceed with the domain name transfer right away. The change will take effect instantaneously, so you won’t need to wait for the status to be changed on WHOIS lookup websites.