Transferring an already registered domain involves switching the domain name registrar that handles the domain name registration service, so after the transfer itself, you will have to manage things like renewal payments or DNS resource record modifications through the new registrar company. The transfer procedure itself is standard with most universal and country-specific Top-Level Domain extensions. Some country-code extensions are more specific and involve different procedures, but in the general case transferring a domain name entails a few necessary procedures and one of them is unlocking the domain name. The lock is a security option, which is being embraced by more and more domain name registry organizations. It is a default feature supported by all generic top-level domain names. If a domain name is locked, it won’t be possible to start a transfer process, so no one can even try to snatch your domain name. The domain lock can be removed only through the account where the domain is registered and all new domains that support this feature are locked by default when they are registered.
Registrar Lock in Cloud Hosting
Locking and unlocking a domain name registered through our company is unbelievably easy. This can be done through the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with our cloud hosting service, and will take literally two clicks. All your domains will be listed alphabetically in the Domain Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel and next to those whose extensions support the domain lock option, you’ll see a padlock-like icon. Click on it once and you’ll see the domain name’s current status. Click once again and you’ll alter its status. The update will propagate instantaneously 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 process straight away.
Registrar Lock in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you want to transfer a domain from our company to another domain name registrar and you have a semi-dedicated server account, you will be able to get the domain name ready with only a couple of clicks of the mouse. All your domains will be displayed in a separate section of the Hepsia Control Panel – the exact same tool via which you will manage your hosting account. If a given gTLD or ccTLD supports the registrar lock feature, you’ll notice a padlock icon. You can see whether the domain name is locked or not by clicking on that icon once and you can change 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 continue with the domain transfer procedure straight away. The change will take effect momentarily, so you will not have to wait for the status to be updated on WHOIS lookup sites.